1. Experimental models in Chagas disease: a review of the methodologies applied for screening compounds against Trypanosoma cruzi

   • Cristina Fonseca-Berzal
   • Vicente J. Arán
   • Alicia Gómez-Barrio

   Review 19 September 2018 Pages: 3367 - 3380

   

2. A putative calcium-ATPase of the secretory pathway family may regulate calcium/manganese levels in the Golgi apparatus of Entamoeba histolytica

   • Mario A. Rodríguez
   • Aarón Martínez-Higuera
   • Andrés Salas-Casas

   Original Paper 06 August 2018 Pages: 3381 - 3389

   

3. First report on Protostrongylus cuniculorum (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae) in the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778 L.) from Bulgaria

   • Mariana Panayotova-Pencheva
   • Vassilena Dakova
   • Anetka Trifonova

   Original Paper 03 August 2018 Pages: 3391 - 3397

   

4. Biomarkers and renal arterial resistive index in dogs naturally infected with Leishmania infantum

   • Fabiano de Oliveira Frazilio
   • Fernando de Almeida Borges
   • Fernanda Battistotti Barbosa

   Original Paper 01 August 2018 Pages: 3399 - 3405

   

5. Zoonotic Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis, Dirofilaria immitis, Borrelia burgdorferi, and spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) in different types of dogs

   • Mohammad M. Obaidat
   • Musa A. Alshehabat

   Original Paper 31 July 2018 Pages: 3407 - 3412

6. Association of ectoparasites (Diptera and Acari) on bats (Mammalia) in a restinga habitat in northeastern Brazil

   • Rayanna Hellem Santos Bezerra
   • Adriana Bocchiglieri

   Original Paper 02 August 2018 Pages: 3413 - 3420

7. First molecular detection of the human pathogen Rickettsia raoultii and other spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodid ticks from wild and domestic mammals

   • Valentina Chisu
   • Cipriano Foxi
   • Giovanna Masala

   Original Paper 04 August 2018 Pages: 3421 - 3429

   

8. Contact lens-related polymicrobial keratitis: Acanthamoeba spp. genotype T4 and Candida albicans

   • Maria Luiza Carneiro Buchele
   • Débora Borgert Wopereis
   • Karin Silva Caumo

   Original Paper 10 August 2018 Pages: 3431 - 3436

   

9. In vitro interaction between Plasmodium falciparum myosin B (PfMyoB) and myosin A tail interacting protein (MTIP)

   • Paula C. Hernández
   • Moisés Wasserman
   • Jacqueline Chaparro-Olaya

   Original Paper 09 August 2018 Pages: 3437 - 3446

   

10. Population structures of Leishmania infantum and Leishmania tropica the causative agents of kala-azar in Southwest Iran

    • Mohammad Amin Ghatee
    • Hossein Mirhendi
    • Zahra Kanannejad

    Original Paper Open access 13 August 2018 Pages: 3447 - 3458

    

11. Effect of water quality on the parasite assemblages infecting Nile tilapia in selected fish farms in Nakuru County, Kenya

    • Renis Auma Ojwala
    • Elick Onyango Otachi
    • Nzula Kivuva Kitaka

    Original Paper 30 August 2018 Pages: 3459 - 3471

    

12. In vitro expression and functional characterization of NPA motifs in aquaporins of Nosema bombycis

    • Gong Chen
    • Zhilin Zhang
    • Zhongyuan Shen

    Original Paper 13 August 2018 Pages: 3473 - 3479

    

13. Dispersion and infectivity of Toxocara canis eggs after passage through chicken intestine

    • Yslla Fernanda Fitz Balo Merigueti
    • Ricardo da Silva Raposo
    • Vamilton Alvares Santarém

    Original Paper 08 August 2018 Pages: 3481 - 3486

14. Expression and characterization of glutathione peroxidase of the liver fluke, Fasciola gigantica

    • Narin Changklungmoa
    • Kulathida Chaithirayanon
    • Pornanan Kueakhai

    Original Paper 25 August 2018 Pages: 3487 - 3495

    

15. A new species of Hamaticolax (Copepoda: Bomolochidae) from Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809) (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae) in NW Mediterranean deep waters and notes on patterns of host use and host-specificity of the genus

    • Sara Dallarés
    • María Constenla
    • Maite Carrassón

    Original Paper 05 September 2018 Pages: 3497 - 3505

    

16. MaxEnt modeling of soil-transmitted helminth infection distributions in Thailand

    • J. Chaiyos
    • K. Suwannatrai
    • A. T. Suwannatrai

    Original Paper 17 August 2018 Pages: 3507 - 3517

    

17. Tannic acid-modified silver nanoparticles as a novel therapeutic agent against Acanthamoeba

    • Marcin Padzik
    • Edyta B. Hendiger
    • Jacob Lorenzo-Morales

    Original Paper Open access 15 August 2018 Pages: 3519 - 3525

    

18. The effects of raw propolis on Varroa-infested honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers

    • Michelina Pusceddu
    • Ignazio Floris
    • Alberto Satta

    Original Paper 17 August 2018 Pages: 3527 - 3535

    

19. Ellipsomyxa arariensis n. sp. (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae), a new myxozoan parasite of Pygocentrus nattereri Kner, 1858 (Teleostei: Characidae) and Pimelodus ornatus Kner, 1858 (Teleostei: Pimelodidae) from Marajó Island, in the Brazilian Amazon region

    • Diehgo Tuloza da Silva
    • Patricia Santos Matos
    • Edilson Rodrigues Matos

    Original Paper 20 September 2018 Pages: 3537 - 3545

    

20. Impact of trematode infections on periphyton grazing rates of freshwater snails

    • Jenny Carolina Vivas Muñoz
    • Sabine Hilt
    • Klaus Knopf

    Original Paper 01 September 2018 Pages: 3547 - 3555

    

21. Some aspects on tick species in Mongolia and their potential role in the transmission of equine piroplasms, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi L.

    • Myadagsuren Narankhajid
    • Chultemsuren Yeruult
    • Georg Gerhard Duscher

    Original Paper Open access 03 September 2018 Pages: 3557 - 3566

    

22. Formalin-ethyl acetate concentration, FLOTAC Pellet and anal swab techniques for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites

    • Paola Cociancic
    • Laura Rinaldi
    • Graciela Teresa Navone

    Original Paper 18 August 2018 Pages: 3567 - 3573

    

23. Population genetics of benzimidazole-resistant Haemonchus contortus and Haemonchus placei from buffalo and cattle: implications for the emergence and spread of resistance mutations

    • Qasim Ali
    • Imran Rashid
    • Umer Chaudhry

    Original Paper Open access 24 August 2018 Pages: 3575 - 3583

    

24. In vivo and in vitro antimalarial effect and toxicological evaluation of the chloroquine analogue PQUI08001/06

    • Patricia Alves Reis
    • Karla Ceodaro Pais
    • Hugo Caire de Castro-Faria-Neto

    Original Paper 25 August 2018 Pages: 3585 - 3590

    

25. Environmental drivers of parasite load and species richness in introduced parakeets in an urban landscape

    • L. Ancillotto
    • V. Studer
    • E. Mori

    Original Paper 30 August 2018 Pages: 3591 - 3599

    

26. Impact of primary mouse macrophage cell types on Leishmania infection and in vitro drug susceptibility

    • M. Van den Kerkhof
    • L. Van Bockstal
    • Sarah Hendrickx

    Original Paper 23 August 2018 Pages: 3601 - 3612

    

27. First isolation of Sarcocystis caninum sarcocysts from two domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) from China

    • Yulong Ye
    • Yu Liang
    • Yunzhi Zhang

    Original Paper 27 August 2018 Pages: 3613 - 3618

    

28. Phylogenetic relationships within Dicrocoeliidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) from birds from the Czech Republic using partial 28S rDNA sequences

    • Jitka Aldhoun
    • Rasha Elmahy
    • D.T.J. Littlewood

    Original Paper Open access 05 September 2018 Pages: 3619 - 3624

    

29. Molecular characterization, expression profile, and preliminary evaluation of diagnostic potential of CD63 in Schistosoma japonicum

    • Lihui Wang
    • Bikash Ranjan Giri
    • Guofeng Cheng

    Original Paper 03 September 2018 Pages: 3625 - 3631

    

30. Gametogony of Eimeria cameli in the small intestine of one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius)

    • Jitender P. Dubey
    • Rolf K. Schuster
    • Joerg Kinne

    Original Paper 10 September 2018 Pages: 3633 - 3638

    

31. Identification of a perchloric acid-soluble protein (PSP)-like ribonuclease from Trichomonas vaginalis

    • Alma Villalobos-Osnaya
    • Georgina Garza-Ramos
    • María Elizbeth Alvarez-Sanchez

    Original Paper 06 September 2018 Pages: 3639 - 3652

    

32. Grillotia (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) plerocerci in an anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius) from the Tyrrhenian Sea

    • Mario Santoro
    • Barbara Degli Uberti
    • Giorgio Galiero

    Original Paper 03 September 2018 Pages: 3653 - 3658

    

33. The first case of genetically confirmed sparganosis (Spirometra erinaceieuropaei) in European reptiles

    • Eliza Kondzior
    • Małgorzata Tokarska
    • Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska

    Short Communication Open access 15 September 2018 Pages: 3659 - 3662

    

34. Morphological and genetic characterisation of Sarcocystis halieti from the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

    • Petras Prakas
    • Dalius Butkauskas
    • Vitas Stanevičius

    Short Communication 18 September 2018 Pages: 3663 - 3667

    

35. First surveillance and molecular identification of the Cryptosporidium skunk genotype and Cryptosporidium parvum in wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Osaka, Japan

    • Koji Hattori
    • Takuto Donomoto
    • Makoto Matsubayashi

    Short Communication 29 September 2018 Pages: 3669 - 3674

    

36. Carbon dioxide is an absolute requirement for exsheathment of some, but not all, abomasal nematode species

    • Kiliana Bekelaar
    • Tania Waghorn
    • Dave Leathwick

    Short Communication 27 September 2018 Pages: 3675 - 3678

    

37. Two cases of subcutaneous dirofilariasis in Barcelona, Spain

    • Pedro Laynez-Roldán
    • Josué Martínez-de la Puente
    • Natalia Rodriguez-Valero

    Short Communication 02 October 2018 Pages: 3679 - 3681

38. Establishment of Fascioloides magna in a new region of Hungary: case report

    • Eszter Nagy
    • Ildikó Jócsák
    • Gábor Nagy

    Short Communication 04 October 2018 Pages: 3683 - 3687