| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveBook Reviews Review of "What bugged the dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous" by Poinar G. Jr. and Poinar R Raymond L Jacobson PMCID: PMC2275316 Review of "Leishmania- after the Genome" by Peter J. Myler and Nicolas Fasel Kevin M Tyler PMCID: PMC2394518 Review of "Medical Entomology for Students" by M.W. Service Richard D Ward PMCID: PMC2412864 Review of Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems by Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, and Valerie T. Eviner Jean-François Guégan PMCID: PMC2535583 Review of "Emerging Pests and Vector-Borne Diseases in Europe" by Willem Takken and Bart G.J. Knols Domenico Otranto PMCID: PMC2559996 Review of "Infectious Disease: a Scientific American reader." Chris Arme PMCID: PMC2565652 Review of Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work by Mary Ann (Basinger) Maggenti, Armand R. Maggenti and Scott Lyell Gardner (editor) Les Chappell PMCID: PMC2572595 Editorial Welcome to Parasites & Vectors Chris Arme PMCID: PMC2227943 Research The use of yellow fluorescent hybrids to indicate mating in Trypanosoma brucei Wendy Gibson, Lori Peacock, Vanessa Ferris, Katherine Williams, and Mick Bailey PMCID: PMC2276490 Profiling of proteolytic enzymes in the gut of the tick Ixodes ricinus reveals an evolutionarily conserved network of aspartic and cysteine peptidases Daniel Sojka, Zdeněk Franta, Martin Horn, Ondřej Hajdušek, Conor R Caffrey, Michael Mareš, and Petr Kopáček PMCID: PMC2289814 Prevention of infectious tick-borne diseases in humans: Comparative studies of the repellency of different dodecanoic acid-formulations against Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Ulrich Schwantes, Hans Dautel, and Gerd Jung PMCID: PMC2362118 A stable isotope dual-labelling approach to detect multiple insemination in un-irradiated and irradiated Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes Michelle EH Helinski, Rebecca C Hood, and Bart GJ Knols PMCID: PMC2503960 Canine leishmaniasis in Southern Italy: a role for nitric oxide released from activated macrophages in asymptomatic infection? Maria A Panaro, Olga Brandonisio, Donato de Caprariis, Pasqua Cavallo, Antonia Cianciulli, Vincenzo Mitolo, and Domenico Otranto PMCID: PMC2405778 Factors associated with the acceptance of mass drug administration for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Agusan del Sur, Philippines Maria Lourdes E Amarillo, Vicente Y Belizario, Jr, Jewel T Sadiang-abay, Stephanie Anne M Sison, and Ariane Marie S Dayag PMCID: PMC2441609 Molecular characterization of freshwater snails in the genus Bulinus: a role for barcodes? Richard A Kane, J Russell Stothard, Aidan M Emery, and David Rollinson PMCID: PMC2441610 Lutzomyia longipalpis s.l. in Brazil and the impact of the Sao Francisco River in the speciation of this sand fly vector Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, Ivan V Sonoda, Jose A Fonseca, Marcia A Melo, Valdir Q Balbino, and Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigão PMCID: PMC2474595 Loss of protection with insecticide-treated nets against pyrethroid-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes once nets become holed: an experimental hut study SR Irish, R N'Guessan, PM Boko, C Metonnou, A Odjo, M Akogbeto, and M Rowland PMCID: PMC2459145 UMF-078: A modified flubendazole with potent macrofilaricidal activity against Onchocerca ochengi in African cattle Barend M deC Bronsvoort, Benjamin L Makepeace, Alfons Renz, Vincent N Tanya, Lawrence Fleckenstein, David Ekale, and Alexander J Trees PMCID: PMC2464590 Different serological cross-reactivity of Trypanosoma rangeli forms in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients sera Milene H de Moraes, Alessandra A Guarneri, Fabiana P Girardi, Juliana B Rodrigues, Iriane Eger, Kevin M Tyler, Mário Steindel, and Edmundo C Grisard PMCID: PMC2475519 A monoclonal antibody marker for the exclusion-zone filaments of Trypanosoma brucei Mélanie Bonhivers, Nicolas Landrein, Marion Decossas, and Derrick R Robinson PMCID: PMC2481259 Lutzomyia adiketis sp. n. (Diptera: Phlebotomidae), a vector of Paleoleishmania neotropicum sp. n. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in Dominican amber George Poinar, Jr PMCID: PMC2491605 Composition and structure of the parasite faunas of cod, Gadus morhua L. (Teleostei: Gadidae), in the North East Atlantic Diana Perdiguero-Alonso, Francisco E Montero, Juan Antonio Raga, and Aneta Kostadinova PMCID: PMC2503959 Plasmodium knowlesi in humans, macaques and mosquitoes in peninsular Malaysia Indra Vythilingam, Yusuf M NoorAzian, Tan Cheong Huat, Adela Ida Jiram, Yusof M Yusri, Abdul H Azahari, Ismail NorParina, Abdullah NoorRain, and Sulaiman LokmanHakim PMCID: PMC2531168 Localisation of laminin within Plasmodium berghei oocysts and the midgut epithelial cells of Anopheles stephensi Adéla Nacer, Karen Walker, and Hilary Hurd PMCID: PMC2556657 Tv-RIO1 – an atypical protein kinase from the parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus vitrinus Min Hu, Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Paul W Sternberg, and Robin B Gasser PMCID: PMC2564912 Seroprevalence and epidemiological correlates of Toxoplasma gondii infections among patients referred for hospital-based serological testing in Doha, Qatar Marawan A Abu-Madi, Naema Al-Molawi, and Jerzy M Behnke PMCID: PMC2586624 Risk factors for house-entry by culicine mosquitoes in a rural town and satellite villages in The Gambia Matthew J Kirby, Philippa West, Clare Green, Momodou Jasseh, and Steve W Lindsay PMCID: PMC2584634 Longitudinal evaluation of Ocimum and other plants effects on the feeding behavioral response of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the field in Tanzania Eliningaya J Kweka, Franklin W Mosha, Asanterabi Lowassa, Aneth M Mahande, Michael J Mahande, Charles P Massenga, Filemoni Tenu, Ester E Lyatuu, Michael A Mboya, and Emmanuel A Temu PMCID: PMC2577633 Variable spikes in tick-borne encephalitis incidence in 2006 independent of variable tick abundance but related to weather Sarah E Randolph, Loreta Asokliene, Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc, Antra Bormane, Caroline Burri, Lise Gern, Irina Golovljova, Zdenek Hubalek, Natasa Knap, Maceij Kondrusik, Anne Kupca, Milan Pejcoch, Veera Vasilenko, and Milda Žygutiene PMCID: PMC2614985 Reviews Mathematical models for lymphatic filariasis transmission and control: Challenges and prospects Subramanian Swaminathan, Pani P Subash, Ravi Rengachari, Krishnamoorthy Kaliannagounder, and Das K Pradeep PMCID: PMC2275317 The history of African trypanosomiasis Dietmar Steverding PMCID: PMC2270819 Nature limits filarial transmission Goutam Chandra PMCID: PMC2412863 Trypanosomiasis vector control in Africa and Latin America Chris J Schofield and John P Kabayo PMCID: PMC2526077 Canine vector-borne diseases in Brazil Filipe Dantas-Torres PMCID: PMC2533296 Trichinella spiralis: nurse cell formation with emphasis on analogy to muscle cell repair Zhiliang Wu, Lj Sofronic-Milosavljevic, Isao Nagano, and Yuzo Takahashi PMCID: PMC2538513 Developing novel anthelmintics from plant cysteine proteinases Jerzy M Behnke, David J Buttle, Gillian Stepek, Ann Lowe, and Ian R Duce PMCID: PMC2559997 Short Reports Effects of cyclic nucleotides on midgut infections and maturation of T. b. brucei in G. m. morsitans Ewan T MacLeod, Ian Maudlin, and Susan C Welburn PMCID: PMC2311285 A 15N stable isotope semen label to detect mating in the malaria mosquito Anopheles arabiensis Patton Michelle EH Helinski, Rebecca C Hood, Doris Gludovacz, Leo Mayr, and Bart GJ Knols PMCID: PMC2491606 Absence of Wolbachia endobacteria in the non-filariid nematodes Angiostrongylus cantonensis and A. costaricensis Jeremy M Foster, Sanjay Kumar, Louise Ford, Kelly L Johnston, Renata Ben, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, and Mark J Taylor PMCID: PMC2565651 Giardia assemblage A: human genotype in muskoxen in the Canadian Arctic Susan J Kutz, RC Andrew Thompson, Lydden Polley, Kami Kandola, John Nagy, Caroline M Wielinga, and Brett T Elkin PMCID: PMC2567306 Efficacy of common laboratory disinfectants and heat on killing trypanosomatid parasites Xia Wang, Momodou Jobe, Kevin M Tyler, and Dietmar Steverding PMCID: PMC2556999 Comparative evaluation of three PCR base diagnostic assays for the detection of pathogenic trypanosomes in cattle blood Samuel M Thumbi, Francis A McOdimba, Reuben O Mosi, and Joseph O Jung'a PMCID: PMC2615751 Correction Lutzomyia longipalpis s.l. in Brazil and the impact of the Sao Francisco River in the speciation of this sand fly vector Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, Ivan V Sonoda, Jose A Fonseca, Marcia A Melo, Valdir Q Balbino, and Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigão PMCID: PMC2572594 Corrects: Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, et al. Lutzomyia longipalpis s.l. in Brazil and the impact of the Sao Francisco River in the speciation of this sand fly vector. Parasit Vectors. 2008; 1: 16. |
