ACTA TROPICA

Water and health: From environmental pressures to integrated responses.

Pilot field trial of the EG95 vaccine against ovine cystic echinococcosis in Rio Negro, Argentina: 8 years of work.

Research progress on the composition and function of parasite-derived exosomes.

Excito-repellent activity of β-caryophyllene oxide against Aedes aegypti and Anopheles minimus.

Effect of nutritional state and dispersal on the reproductive efficiency in Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) susceptible and resistant to deltamethrin.

Prevalence of porcine parvoviruses in some South African swine herds with background of porcine circovirus type 2 infection.

Challenges in the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Sichuan, Western China.

Knowledge, attitude and practices relating to zoonotic diseases among livestock farmers in Punjab, India.

Modelling the association between deltamethrin resistance in Triatoma infestans populations of the Argentinian Gran Chaco region with environmental factors.

Zombie bugs? Manipulation of kissing bug behavior by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.

Progress towards international adoption of the World Health Organization ultrasound classification of cystic echinococcosis.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis among Syrian refugees in Jordan.

New records of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Egyptian pigeons and doves (Columbiformes), with description of one new species.

A new species of the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Thailand, with its phylogenetic relationships with related species in the Simulium asakoae species-group.

High prevalence of taeniasis and Taenia solium cysticercosis in children in western Sichuan, China.

Trypanosoma cruzi circulating among dogs and triatomines in the endemic countryside of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Infection Status with Zoonotic Trematode Metacercariae in Fish from Lao PDR.

Taxonomy of Physaloptera mirandai (Nematoda: Physalopteroidea) based in three-dimensional microscopy and phylogenetic positioning.

(±)-licarin A and its semi-synthetic derivatives: in vitro and in silico evaluation of trypanocidal and schistosomicidal activities.

Molecular eco-epidemiology on the sympatric Chagas disease vectors Triatoma brasiliensis and Triatoma petrocchiae: ecotopes, genetic variation, natural infection prevalence by trypanosomatids and parasite genotyping.

Multi-locus genotyping and phylogenetic analyses of Giardia intestinalis isolates from indigenous goats in Ogun State, Nigeria.

Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae infection, hematological changes and associated factors in domestic cats and dogs from an Atlantic rain forest area, Brazil.

Strongyloides venezuelensis infection augments arterial blood pressure in male wistar rats.

Detection of enzootic circulation of a new strain of West Nile virus lineage 1 in sentinel chickens in the north of Tunisia.

Identification, characterization and expression analysis of Anopheles stephensi double peroxidase.

A new Trichuris species (Nematoda: Trichuridae) from capybaras: Morphological-molecular characterization and phylogenetic relationships.

Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of Lutzia (Diptera: Culicidae: Culicini) from Thailand.

Novel MLST sequence types of pathogenic Leptospira spp.: Opening the black box of animal leptospirosis in Brazil.

Parasite-derived microRNAs in plasma as novel promising biomarkers for the early detection of hydatid cyst infection and post-surgery follow-up.

Potential distribution and ecological conditions of Lonomia obliqua Walker 1855 (Saturniidae: Hemileucinae) in Brazil.

A real-time loop mediated isothermal amplification assay for molecular detection of Burkholderia mallei, the aetiological agent of a zoonotic and re-emerging disease glanders.

Cadmium tolerance pathway in Anopheles gambiae senso stricto.

Entomological surveillance to assess potential outbreak of Aedes-borne arboviruses and insecticide resistance status of Aedes aegypti from Cape Coast, Ghana.

Reasons behind the epidemiological situation of brucellosis in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

First report of the prevalence and genotype of Trypanosoma in bats in Yun nan Province, Southwestern China.

A new species of Laelaps Koch, 1836 (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) parasitic of the sigmodontine rodent Oligoryzomys flavescens Waterhouse, 1837 (Rodentia: Cricetidae): Molecular and morphological characterization.

Parasites of Gymnodactylus darwinii Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) from an Atlantic Rainforest fragment.

Sub-microscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in matched peripheral, placental and umbilical cord blood samples from asymptomatic Congolese women at delivery.

How rational drug use reduces trypanosome infections in cattle in chemo-resistance hot-spot villages of northern Togo.

Identification and molecular characterization of mycobacteria isolated from animal sources in a developing country.

Immature Fasciola gigantica: Time-dependent ultrastructural changes following in vivo treatment with triclabendazole.

Phoenix dactylifera, Mentha piperita and Montanide™ ISA-201 as Immunological Adjuvants in a chicken model.

Efficacy of Montanide (IMS 3015) as an adjuvant for an inactivated Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine in sheep.

Rickettsia species in ticks collected from wild pigs (Sus scrofa) and Philippine deer (Rusa marianna) on Guam, Marianna Islands, USA.

nDevelopment and evaluation of a chemiluminescence immunoassay for detecting tropical theileriosis.

Neospora caninum DNA in feces of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous - Linnaeus, 1776) from northeastern Brazil.

Recent advances in Schistosoma mekongi ecology, transcriptomics and proteomics of relevance to snail control.