Bernotienė, Rasa Žiegytė, Rita Vaitkutė, Gabrielė Valkiūnas, Gediminas
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundHaemosporidian parasites are transmitted by dipteran blood-sucking insects but certain vectors remain unidentified for the great majority of described species. Sensitive PCR-based methods are often used for the detection of haemosporidian infection in wild-caught insects. However, this approach alone cannot distinguish between different s...
Ulman, Aylin Ferrario, Jasmine Forcada, Aitor Arvanitidis, Christos Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Anna Marchini, Agnese
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Journal of environmental management
Pucu, E Lemos, E Rozental, T Ogrzewalska, M Chame, M Machado-Silva, J R Leles, D
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The Journal of parasitology
The study of arthropods is still scarce in paleoparasitology, especially their molecular identification. In this experimental study, we amplify DNA using a polymerase chain reaction from 2 ectoparasite species, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Pediculus humanus capitis, in experimentally desiccated feces. This study shows perspectives for the study of ...
Zogo, B. Soma, D. D. Tchiekoi, B. N. Some, A. Alou, L. P. A. Koffi, A. A. Fournet, Florence Dahounto, A. Coulibaly, B. Kande, S.
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A better understanding of malaria transmission at a local scale is essential for developing and implementing effective control strategies. In the framework of a randomized controlled trial (RCT), we aimed to provide an updated description of malaria transmission in the Korhogo area, northern Cote d'Ivoire, and to obtain baseline data for the trial....
Azari-Hamidian, Shahyad Norouzi, Behzad Noorallahi, Ayoob Ali Hanafi-Bojd, Ahmad
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Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases
Background: Mosquito-borne arboviruses such as West Nile, dengue, Rift Valley fever, and Sindbis viruses and the nematode Dirofilaria are reported in Iran, but there is little information on the seasonal activity of their vectors in the country. We aimed to determine the seasonal activity of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in a focus of dirof...
Reed, Kurt D.
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Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences
Zoonotic viral infections represent an important public health problem across the globe. Unlike infectious agents that are limited to humans, the presence of domestic and wild animal reservoirs and insect and arthropod vectors greatly complicate transmission dynamics and make control measures very difficult to implement. Some viral zoonoses are cat...
Iacarella, Josephine C. Davidson, Ian C. Dunham, Anya
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Biological Invasions
Coastal infrastructure provides extensive habitat for marine nonindigenous species (“NIS”), especially biofouling species. Ecosystem transplants can arise when static maritime structures (“SMS”) are relocated under slow towing speeds following long periods of biofouling accumulation. Translocations of SMS occur more often than acknowledged and repr...
Chagas, Carolina Romeiro Fernandes Bukauskaitė, Dovilė Ilgūnas, Mikas Iezhova, Tatjana Valkiūnas, Gediminas
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Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundBlood parasites of the genus Haemoproteus Kruse, 1890 are cosmopolitan, might be responsible for mortality in non-adapted birds, and often kill blood-sucking insects. However, this group remains insufficiently investigated in the wild. This is particularly true for the parasites of leaf warblers of the Phylloscopidae Alström, Ericson, Ols...
Sirisena, Nirmala Dushyanthi Samaranayake, Nilakshi Dissanayake, Vajira H. W.
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BMC Research Notes
ObjectiveThe data presented herein represents the preliminary results of the functional assays of a recently conducted larger study in which two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) [XRCC2:rs3218550 and PHB:rs6917] were significantly associated with risk of breast cancer among Sri Lankan postmenopausal women. The rs3218550 T allele and rs6917 A a...
Ramasindrazana, Beza Goodman, Steven M. Dsouli, Najla Gomard, Yann Lagadec, Erwan Randrianarivelojosia, Milijaona Dellagi, Koussay Tortosa, Pablo
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundBats are home to diverse haemosporidian parasites namely Plasmodium and Plasmodium-related. While information is available at a worldwide level, haemosporidian infection in bats from Madagascar is still scarce and recent changes in the taxonomy of the island’s bat fauna, particularly the description of several new species, require a reass...
