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Drivers of autochthonous malaria cases over time: could the Central European present the African future?
BackgroundResults of spatial and temporal comparison of malaria hotspots and coldspots could improve the health measures of malaria control and...
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Comparative immune profiling of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression among South African patients
BackgroundPancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment. Patients from...
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African Swine Fever Virus MGF-110-9L-deficient Mutant Has Attenuated Virulence in Pigs
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the etiological agent of African swine fever (ASF), an often lethal disease in domestic and wild pigs. ASF...
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Genetic and antigenic variation of the bovine tick-borne pathogen Theileria parva in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa
BackgroundTheileria parva causes East Coast fever (ECF), one of the most economically important tick-borne diseases of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa....
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The regulation of Akt and FoxO transcription factors during dehydration in the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)
The African clawed frog ( Xenopus laevis ) naturally tolerates severe dehydration using biochemical adaptation, one of which is the elevation of...
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Molecular identification of Bulinus spp. intermediate host snails of Schistosoma spp. in crater lakes of western Uganda with implications for the transmission of the Schistosoma haematobium group parasites
BackgroundHuman schistosomiasis is the second most important tropical disease and occurs in two forms in Africa (intestinal and urogenital) caused by...
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Molecular characterisation and morphological description of two new species of Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) infecting leukocytes of African leopards Panthera pardus pardus (L.)
BackgroundThe African leopard Panthera pardus pardus (L.) is currently listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN (International Union for the...
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Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin & Sproston, 1948) from the giant mottled eel Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, in the Phongolo River, South Africa: an invader on the African continent
The global invasive anguillid gill parasite Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin and Sproston, 1948) has only recently been documented from eels in...
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Mitochondrial phylogeography and population structure of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus in the African Great Lakes region
BackgroundThe ixodid tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus is the main vector of Theileria parva , wich causes the highly fatal cattle disease East Coast...
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Promising Compounds of Plant Origin and Their Synthetic Analogs Against Trypanosomes
There are about 20 species of the genus Trypanosoma, but among them only a few subspecies—Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Trypanosoma brucei...
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Desert Water Sources and Vector Adaptation
Water in desert is synonymous to the survival of man. The very existence of animal and plant life in deserts depends on the presence of water,...
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Taxonomic assessment of the genus Procamallanus (Nematoda) in Middle American cichlids (Osteichthyes) with molecular data, and the description of a new species from Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Procamallanus is a species-rich genus of parasitic nematodes of marine, brackish, and freshwater fishes, occurring also occasionally in amphibians...
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Parallel and non-parallel changes of the gut microbiota during trophic diversification in repeated young adaptive radiations of sympatric cichlid fish
BackgroundRecent increases in understanding the ecological and evolutionary roles of microbial communities have underscored the importance of their...
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An urban-to-rural continuum of malaria risk: new analytic approaches characterize patterns in Malawi
BackgroundThe urban–rural designation has been an important risk factor in infectious disease epidemiology. Many studies rely on a politically...
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First record of monogenean fish parasites in the Upper Lufira River Basin (Democratic Republic of Congo): dactylogyrids and gyrodactylids infesting Oreochromis mweruensis, Coptodon rendalli and Serranochromis macrocephalus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
BackgroundMonogenean parasites have never been formally reported on fishes from the Lufira River Basin. In this context, we decided to record the...
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The arrival of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses H5N8 in Iran through two windows, 2016
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus has received considerable attention during the past 2 decades due to its zoonotic and...
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Sex-specific responses to mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism in hypertensive African American males and females
BackgroundAfrican Americans (AA) develop hypertension (HTN) at an earlier age, have a greater frequency and severity of HTN, and greater prevalence...
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Protozoa
Protozoa are unicellular eukaryotes that are heterotrophic, motile, and lack cell walls. They are evolutionarily diverse and found in all major...
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Epidemics of Malaria in Major Deserts
An epidemic is, in principle, defined as any sudden increase in disease incidence beyond what is considered normal (cf. Najera et al. 1998)....
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Fine-scale map** of urban malaria exposure under data scarcity: an approach centred on vector ecology
BackgroundAlthough malaria transmission has experienced an overall decline in sub-Saharan Africa, urban malaria is now considered an emerging health...
