Silencing expression of the Rhipicephalus microplus vitellogenin receptor gene blocks Babesia bovis transmission and interferes with oocyte maturation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infections by protozoans of the genus Giardia are a common cause of diarrhea in dogs. Canine giardiosis constitutes a disease with a zoonotic potential; however, it is often underestimated due to its challenging diagnosis. The objective of the study was to assess the diagnostic performance of an immunochroma...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Symeonidou I,Gelasakis AΙ,Miliotou AN,Angelou A,Arsenopoulos KV,Loukeri S,Papadopoulos E

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The protistan pathogens Cryptosporidium and Giardia can cause significant intestinal diseases in animals and humans. Cattle, particularly calves, carrying these protists can be significant reservoirs for human infections and disease. However, little is known about the genetic make-up of Cryptosporidium and G...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Fan Y,Wang T,Koehler AV,Hu M,Gasser RB

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：: The proteasome inhibitor and anti-cancer drug bortezomib was tested for in vitro activity against bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. The concentrations of bortezomib required to reduce the growth rate by 50% and to kill all trypanosomes were 3.3 nM and 10 nM, respectively. In addition, bortezomib was 10 times m...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Steverding D,Wang X

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver fibrosis is an excessive wound-healing reaction that requires the participation of inflammatory cells and hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). The pathogenesis of liver fibrosis caused by viruses and alcohol has been well characterized, but the molecular mechanisms underlying liver fibrosis induced by the li...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Zhou L,Shi M,Zhao L,Lin Z,Tang Z,Sun H,Chen T,Lv Z,Xu J,Huang Y,Yu X

更新日期：2017-06-17 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:The low prevalence of blood parasites in some bird species may be related to the habitats they frequent, the inexistence of the right host-parasite assemblage or the immunological capacity of the host. Here, we assess the parasite load of breeding populations of Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae), a medium-...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Gutiérrez-López R,Gangoso L,Martínez-de la Puente J,Fric J,López-López P,Mailleux M,Muñoz J,Touati L,Samraoui B,Figuerola J

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of the potential vector role of Culicidae mosquitoes in Germany is very scanty, and until recently it was generally assumed that they are not involved in the transmission of anthroponotic or zoonotic pathogens in this country. However, anticipated changes in the course of global warming and globali...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Czajka C,Becker N,Poppert S,Jöst H,Schmidt-Chanasit J,Krüger A

更新日期：2012-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spatial repellents that drive mosquitoes away from treated areas, and odour-baited traps, that attract and kill mosquitoes, can be combined and work synergistically in a push-pull system. Push-pull systems have been shown to reduce house entry and outdoor biting rates of malaria vectors and so have the poten...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Tambwe MM,Moore SJ,Chilumba H,Swai JK,Moore JD,Stica C,Saddler A

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-density asymptomatic infections of Plasmodium spp. are common in low endemicity areas worldwide, but outside Africa, their contribution to malaria transmission is poorly understood. Community-based studies with highly sensitive molecular diagnostics are needed to quantify the asymptomatic reservoir of Pl...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Nguitragool W,Mueller I,Kumpitak C,Saeseu T,Bantuchai S,Yorsaeng R,Yimsamran S,Maneeboonyang W,Sa-Angchai P,Chaimungkun W,Rukmanee P,Puangsa-Art S,Thanyavanich N,Koepfli C,Felger I,Sattabongkot J,Singhasivanon P

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cysteine proteinases in papaya latex have been shown to have potent anthelmintic properties in monogastric hosts such as rodents, pigs and humans, but this has not been demonstrated in ruminants. METHODS:In two experiments, sheep were infected concurrently with 5,000 infective larvae of Haemonchus conto...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Buttle DJ,Behnke JM,Bartley Y,Elsheikha HM,Bartley DJ,Garnett MC,Donnan AA,Jackson F,Lowe A,Duce IR

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue virus (DENV) is the arbovirus with the highest incidence in New Caledonia and in the South Pacific region. In 2012-2014, a major DENV-1 outbreak occurred in New Caledonia. The only known vector of DENV in New Caledonia is Aedes aegypti but no study has yet evaluated the competence of New Caledonia Ae....

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Calvez E,Guillaumot L,Girault D,Richard V,O'Connor O,Paoaafaite T,Teurlai M,Pocquet N,Cao-Lormeau VM,Dupont-Rouzeyrol M

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate identification of schistosome species infecting intermediate host snails is important for understanding parasite transmission, schistosomiasis control and elimination. Cercariae emerging from infected snails cannot be precisely identified morphologically to the species level. We used molecular tools...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Tian-Bi YT,Webster B,Konan CK,Allan F,Diakité NR,Ouattara M,Salia D,Koné A,Kakou AK,Rabone M,Coulibaly JT,Knopp S,Meïté A,Utzinger J,N'Goran EK,Rollinson D

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluralaner is a novel isoxazoline eliciting both acaricidal and insecticidal activity through potent blockage of GABA- and glutamate-gated chloride channels. The aim of the study was to investigate the susceptibility of juvenile stages of common tick species exposed to fluralaner through either contact (Rhip...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Williams H,Zoller H,Roepke RK,Zschiesche E,Heckeroth AR

更新日期：2015-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus is a parasite of major concern for modern livestock husbandry because hostile environmental conditions may induce diapause in the early fourth-stage larvae. METHODS:A new gene Hc-daf-22 was identified which is the homologue of Ce-daf-22 and human SCPx. Genome wal...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Guo X,Zhang H,Zheng X,Zhou Q,Yang Y,Chen X,Du A

更新日期：2016-07-29 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:With field releases starting in Brazil, particular interest must be given to understanding how the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with a Brazilian genetic background. Currently, there is limited information on how the bacterium affects phenotypic traits such as l...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Dutra HL,Lopes da Silva V,da Rocha Fernandes M,Logullo C,Maciel-de-Freitas R,Moreira LA

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common parasitic zoonoses. The seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans varies widely worldwide. Detection of Toxoplasma-specific antibodies has been a gold standard method for both epidemiological investigation and clinical diagnosis. Genetic investigation ind...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Sun X,Lu H,Jia B,Chang Z,Peng S,Yin J,Chen Q,Jiang N

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insect haemocytes mediate cellular immune responses (e.g., phagocytosis) and contribute to the synthesis of humoral immune factors. In previous work, a genome-wide molecular characterization of Anopheles gambiae circulating haemocytes was followed by functional gene characterization using cell-based RNAi scr...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Lombardo F,Christophides GK

更新日期：2016-02-09 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:Animal trypanosomosis is endemic in Nigeria, while the human disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is rarely reported nowadays after efforts to bring it under control in the 20th century. The University of Nigeria Veterinary Teaching Hospital (UNVTH) is a reference centre located within the Nsukka a...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Umeakuana PU,Gibson W,Ezeokonkwo RC,Anene BM

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trypanosomosis is a haemoprotozoan disease, mostly transmitted by the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), it causes severe disease in humans and animals in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The disease results in loss of livestock and agricultural productivity with severe socio-economic impacts. In Ethiopia, bovine trypanos...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Leta S,Alemayehu G,Seyoum Z,Bezie M

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taxonomic identification of ticks obtained during a longitudinal survey of the critically endangered marsupial, Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 (woylie, brush-tailed bettong) revealed a new species of Ixodes Latrielle, 1795. Here we provide morphological data for the female and nymphal life stages of this n...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ash A,Elliot A,Godfrey S,Burmej H,Abdad MY,Northover A,Wayne A,Morris K,Clode P,Lymbery A,Thompson RC

更新日期：2017-02-07 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:Toxocara canis is quite closely related to Ascaris suum but its biology is more complex, involving a phase of arrested development (diapause or hypobiosis) in tissues as well as transplacental and transmammary transmission routes. In the present study, we explored and compared dauer-like signalling pathways ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ma G,Wang T,Korhonen PK,Nie S,Reid GE,Stroehlein AJ,Koehler AV,Chang BCH,Hofmann A,Young ND,Gasser RB

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (s.l.) is the most widely distributed ixodid tick and is a vector of major canine and human pathogens. High-throughput technologies have revealed that individual ticks carry a high diversity of pathogens, including bacteria, protozoa and viruses. Currently, it is accepted ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Cabezas-Cruz A,Allain E,Ahmad AS,Saeed MA,Rashid I,Ashraf K,Yousfi L,Shehzad W,Indjein L,Rodriguez-Valle M,Estrada-Peña A,Obregón D,Jabbar A,Moutailler S

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of infection with the nematode parasite Onchocerca volvulus are currently based on the microscopic detection of microfilariae in skin biopsies. Alternative approaches based on amplification of parasitic DNA in these skin biopsies are currently being explored. Mostly th...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Lagatie O,Merino M,Batsa Debrah L,Debrah AY,Stuyver LJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Practical, field-ready age-grading tools for mosquito vectors of disease are urgently needed because of the impact that daily survival has on vectorial capacity. Previous studies have shown that near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), in combination with chemometrics and predictive modeling, can forecast the age ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ong OTW,Kho EA,Esperança PM,Freebairn C,Dowell FE,Devine GJ,Churcher TS

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) greatly affects livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana prevalence of AAT is estimated to range between 5 and 50%. Studies have reported serum biochemical aberrations and variability in cytokine profiles in animals during infection. However, information regar...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Bakari SM,Ofori JA,Kusi KA,Aning GK,Awandare GA,Carrington M,Gwira TM

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Libyostrongylus douglassii, Libyostrongylus dentatus and Libyostrongylus magnus are nematodes that infect ostriches. The first species has been identified in ostriches from Africa, Europe, Americas and Oceania. Although the natural range of ostriches is Africa, L. dentatus was first described in birds from t...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Andrade JG,Kumsa B,Ayana D,Vieira RAM,Santos CP,Iñiguez AM,DaMatta RA

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliable maps of the geographical distribution, number of infected individuals and burden estimates of schistosomiasis are essential tools to plan, monitor and evaluate control programmes. Large-scale disease mapping and prediction efforts rely on compiled historical survey data obtained from the peer-review...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Schur N,Utzinger J,Vounatsou P

更新日期：2011-07-20 00:00:00