Functional analysis of a novel parasitic nematode-specific protein of Setaria digitata larvae in Culex quinquefasciatus by siRNA mediated RNA interference.

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is a major disease of public health importance in humans occurring in 76 countries of the tropics and sub-tropics. In China, schistosomiasis japonica is one of the highest priorities in communicable disease control defined by the central government. Since 1970s, the habitats of Biomphalaria straminea, ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wang W,Liang YS,Hong QB,Dai JR

更新日期：2013-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human and animal fascioliasis poses serious public health problems in South America. In Venezuela, livestock infection represents an important veterinary problem whereas there appear to be few human cases reported, most of which are passively detected in health centres. However, results of recent surveys sug...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Bargues MD,González LC,Artigas P,Mas-Coma S

更新日期：2011-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the rapid spread of pyrethroid resistance in the main malaria vectors from Benin and the various resistance mechanisms involved (metabolic resistance and knock-down resistance (kdr), it is important to foresee effective resistance management strategies. Thus, the knowledge of the insensitive acetylcholi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Aïzoun N,Aïkpon R,Gnanguenon V,Oussou O,Agossa F,Padonou G,Akogbéto M

更新日期：2013-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two hemoplasma species, Mycoplasma suis and M. parvum, previously known as Eperythrozoon suis and E. parvum, respectively, have been identified in pigs. Swine hemoplasmosis is a global problem, and M. suis infection results in economic losses to pig producers worldwide. This study investigated the frequency ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Seo MG,Kwon OD,Kwak D

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current study shows the results of three years of IRS entomological monitoring (2016, before intervention; 2017 and 2018, after intervention) performed in Alibori and Donga, northern Benin. METHODS:Mosquito collections were performed on a monthly basis using human landing catches and pyrethrum spray cat...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Salako AS,Dagnon F,Sovi A,Padonou GG,Aïkpon R,Ahogni I,Syme T,Govoétchan R,Sagbohan H,Sominahouin AA,Akinro B,Iyikirenga L,Agossa F,Akogbeto MC

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite, possesses the remarkable ability to co-opt host cell machinery in order to maintain its intracellular survival. This parasite can modulate signaling pathways of its host through the secretion of polymorphic effector proteins localized in the rh...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Liu Q,Li FC,Elsheikha HM,Sun MM,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax uses multiple ligand-receptor interactions for preferential invasion of human reticulocytes. Several of these ligands have been identified by in silico approaches based on the role displayed by their orthologs in other Plasmodium species during initial adhesion or invasion. However, the cell...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Moreno-Pérez DA,Baquero LA,Chitiva-Ardila DM,Patarroyo MA

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African trypanosomosis is a disease of public health and economic importance that poses a major threat to the livelihoods of people living in the Maasai Steppe, where there is a significant interaction between people, livestock and wildlife. The vulnerability of the Maasai people to the disease is enhanced b...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Simwango M,Ngonyoka A,Nnko HJ,Salekwa LP,Ole-Neselle M,Kimera SI,Gwakisa PS

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood-feeding is a common strategy among parasitizing arthropods, including the ectoparasitic salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis), feeding off its salmon host's skin and blood. Blood is rich in nutrients, among these iron and heme. These are essential molecules for the louse, yet their oxidative propertie...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Heggland EI,Dondrup M,Nilsen F,Eichner C

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Japan is one of the few countries believed to have eliminated soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In 1949, the national prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides was 62.9%, which decreased to 0.6% in 1973 due to improvements in infrastructure, socioeconomic status, and the implementation of national STH control meas...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Hasegawa M,Pilotte N,Kikuchi M,Means AR,Papaiakovou M,Gonzalez AM,Maasch JRMA,Ikuno H,Sunahara T,Ásbjörnsdóttir KH,Walson JL,Williams SA,Hamano S,DeWorm3 Project Team.

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cats appear to be the primary reservoir host for Bartonella koehlerae, an alpha Proteobacteria that is most likely transmitted among cat populations by fleas (Ctenocephalides felis). Bartonella koehlerae has caused endocarditis in a dog and in one human patient from Israel, but other clinically relevant repo...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Breitschwerdt EB,Maggi RG,Robert Mozayeni B,Hegarty BC,Bradley JM,Mascarelli PE

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently the role of gastrointestinal nematodes in modulating the immune responses in inflammatory and immune-mediated conditions such as allergy and autoimmune diseases has been introduced. This is mainly due to the suppressive effects of somatic and excretory secretory (ES) products of nematodes on the imm...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Parande Shirvan S,Ebrahimby A,Dousty A,Maleki M,Movassaghi A,Borji H,Haghparast A

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small ruminants are important hosts for various tick species and tick-associated organisms, many of which are zoonotic. The aim of the present study was to determine the presence of tick-borne protozoans and bacteria of public health and veterinary significance in goats and wild Siberian roe deer (Capreolus ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wang H,Yang J,Mukhtar MU,Liu Z,Zhang M,Wang X

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) are caused by a wide range of pathogens transmitted to dogs by arthropods including ticks and insects. Many CVBD-agents are of zoonotic concern, with dogs potentially serving as reservoirs and sentinels for human infections. The present study aimed at assessing the seropr...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Cardoso L,Mendão C,Madeira de Carvalho L

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taenia solium is an important zoonotic parasite that infects humans as definitive host (taeniasis) and pigs as intermediate host (cysticercosis). Serological diagnosis of porcine cysticercosis is limited to antigen detection using ELISA, which is known to cross-react with other Taenia species, and antibody d...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Gomez-Puerta L,Vargas-Calla A,Castillo Y,Lopez-Urbina MT,Dorny P,Garcia HH,Gonzalez AE,O'Neal SE,Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The host represents a heterogeneous ecosystem where multiple parasite species co-occur and interact with each other for space and resources. Although these interactions may rule the features of an infracommunity and may shape the infracommunity response to external perturbations, the resilience of ectoparasi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Carvalho J,Serrano E,Pettorelli N,Granados JE,Habela MA,Olmeda S,Fonseca C,Pérez JM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bed bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) are a group of blood-feeding ectoparasites. They mainly specialize on bats and birds, but a few species are important human pests. They exhibit several unique adaptations for their parasitic lifestyle. Among those, bed bug aggregations represent a striking example of a sub-s...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Balvín O,Chajma P,Naylor R

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus (sensu stricto) is reputed to be the most widespread tick of domestic dogs worldwide and has also been implicated in the transmission of many pathogens to dogs and humans. For more than two centuries, Rh. sanguineus (s.s.) was regarded as a single taxon, even consi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Dantas-Torres F,Latrofa MS,Ramos RAN,Lia RP,Capelli G,Parisi A,Porretta D,Urbanelli S,Otranto D

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reveal the spatio-temporal distribution of malaria vectors in the national malaria surveillance sites from 2005 to 2010 and provide reference for the current National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in China. METHODS:A 6-year longitudinal surveillance on density of malaria vectors was carried out in...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Huang JX,Xia ZG,Zhou SS,Pu XJ,Hu MG,Huang DC,Ren ZP,Zhang SS,Yang MN,Wang DQ,Wang JF

更新日期：2015-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has become a widely used technique for the rapid and accurate identification of bacteria, mycobacteria and certain fungal pathogens in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Thus far, only few attempts have been made...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Feucherolles M,Poppert S,Utzinger J,Becker SL

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A good understanding of mosquito ecology is imperative for integrated vector control of malaria. In breeding sites, Anopheles larvae are concurrently exposed to predators and parasites. However, to our knowledge, there is no study on combined effects of predators and parasites on development and survival of ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ong'wen F,Onyango PO,Bukhari T

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agrochemicals have been widely used in Pakistan for several years. This exposes mosquito populations, particularly those present around agricultural settings, to an intense selection pressure for insecticide resistance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the toxicity of representative agrochemic...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Khan HA,Akram W,Shehzad K,Shaalan EA

更新日期：2011-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BOOK DETAILS:Madhavi R, Bray R: Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer; 2018, 693 pages. ISBN 978-94-024-1533-9. ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Cribb TH

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The argasid tick Ornithodoros erraticus is the vector of African swine fever virus and of several Borrelia species that cause human relapsing fever in the Iberian Peninsula. The tick midgut is part of the ectoparasite-host interface and expresses proteins that are vital for the survival of the tick. Midgut p...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Oleaga A,Obolo-Mvoulouga P,Manzano-Román R,Pérez-Sánchez R

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhipicephalus microplus is an efficient biological vector of Babesia bovis, a causative agent of bovine babesiosis. Babesia bovis is passed transovarially to the next generation of ticks, which then transmit the parasite to naïve animals. Due to the importance of the R. microplus ovary for tick reproduction ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Hussein HE,Johnson WC,Taus NS,Suarez CE,Scoles GA,Ueti MW

更新日期：2019-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Marshallagia (Family Haemonchidae, subfamily Ostertagiinae) contains multiple species of nematodes parasitising the abomasum (or duodenum) of ruminants, in particular of Caprinae. Male specimens have been described to be polymorphic with the frequent/major morphotype initially described in the genu...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Kuchboev A,Sobirova K,Karimova R,Amirov O,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G,Krücken J

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pyrethroid resistance in African vector mosquitoes is a threat to malaria control. Resistant mosquitoes can survive insecticide doses that would normally be lethal. We studied effects of such doses on Plasmodium falciparum development inside kdr-resistant Anopheles gambiae s.s. in Uganda. METHODS:We collect...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Kristan M,Lines J,Nuwa A,Ntege C,Meek SR,Abeku TA

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the biology of malaria vector mosquitoes is crucial to understanding many aspects of the disease, including control and future outcomes. The development rates and survival of two Afrotropical malaria vectors, Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus, are investigated here under conditions of...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Lyons CL,Coetzee M,Chown SL

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboxylesterase overproduction is a frequently observed resistance mechanism of insects to organophosphate insecticides. As a major transmitter of human diseases, mosquitoes in the Culex pipiens complex have evolved 13 carboxylesterase alleles (Ester) that confer organophosphate resistance. Six alleles, Est...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Zhang H,Meng F,Qiao C,Cui F

更新日期：2012-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The merozoite of the zoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi invades human erythrocytes via the binding of its Duffy binding protein (PkDBPαII) to the Duffy antigen on the eythrocytes. The Duffy antigen has two immunologically distinct forms, Fya and Fyb. In this study, the erythrocyte-binding assay was used to quantit...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Fong MY,Cheong FW,Lau YL

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00