1. Editorial

   • Una Ryan

   Editorial 19 May 2018 Pages: 1997 - 1997

   

2. A review of coccidiosis in South American camelids

   • J. P. Dubey

   Review 26 May 2018 Pages: 1999 - 2013

   

3. In vitro and in vivo effects of chitosan-praziquantel and chitosan-albendazole nanoparticles on Echinococcus granulosus Metacestodes

   • Negin Torabi
   • Faramarz Dobakhti
   • Ali Haniloo

   Original Paper 03 April 2018 Pages: 2015 - 2023

   

4. Assemblages A and B of Giardia duodenalis reduce enteric glial cells in the small intestine in mice

   • Mariana Felgueira Pavanelli
   • Cristiane Maria Colli
   • Débora de Mello Gonçales Sant’Ana

   Original Paper 05 May 2018 Pages: 2025 - 2033

   

5. Morphological and molecular analyses of Bipteria lusitanica n. sp. in wild white seabream, Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Portugal

   • Caner Sirin
   • Maria J. Santos
   • Luis F. Rangel

   Original Paper 11 May 2018 Pages: 2035 - 2041

   

6. The effect of dietary antioxidant supplementation in a vertebrate host on the infection dynamics and transmission of avian malaria to the vector

   • Jessica Delhaye
   • Olivier Glaizot
   • Philippe Christe

   Original Paper Open access 09 May 2018 Pages: 2043 - 2052

   

7. Molecular characterization and functional analysis of Eimeria tenella malate dehydrogenase

   • Ting Chen
   • Bing Huang
   • Hongyu Han

   Original Paper 08 May 2018 Pages: 2053 - 2063

   

8. Prevalence and genotyping of Echinococcus granulosus in sheep in Narok County, Kenya

   • D. O. Odongo
   • C. M. Tiampati
   • T. Romig

   Original Paper 08 May 2018 Pages: 2065 - 2073

   

9. Varestrongylus (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae), lungworms of ungulates: a phylogenetic framework based on comparative morphology

   • Guilherme G. Verocai
   • Susan J. Kutz
   • Eric P. Hoberg

   Original Paper 02 May 2018 Pages: 2075 - 2083

   

10. Susceptibility of promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes from distinct Leishmania species to the calpain inhibitor MDL28170

    • Pedro Soares de Sousa Araújo
    • Simone Santiago Carvalho de Oliveira
    • Marta Helena Branquinha

    Original Paper 04 May 2018 Pages: 2085 - 2094

    

11. A scanning electron microscopy study of Anisakis physeteris molecularly identified: from third stage larvae from fish to fourth stage larvae obtained in vitro

    • Dolores Molina-Fernández
    • Francisco Javier Adroher
    • Rocío Benítez

    Original Paper Open access 07 May 2018 Pages: 2095 - 2103

    

12. Phthalimido-thiazole as privileged scaffold: activity against immature and adult worms of Schistosoma mansoni

    • Sheilla Andrade de Oliveira
    • Miria de Oliveira Barbosa
    • Ana Cristina Lima Leite

    Original Paper 07 May 2018 Pages: 2105 - 2115

    

13. Occurrence and molecular characterization of Clinostomum complanatum (Trematoda: Clinostomidae) in freshwater fishes caught from Turkey

    • Emrah Simsek
    • Alparslan Yildirim
    • Gokmen Zafer Pekmezci

    Original Paper 02 May 2018 Pages: 2117 - 2124

    

14. Historical biogeography among species of Varestrongylus lungworms (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae) in ungulates: episodic expansion and host colonization linking Eurasia and North America

    • Guilherme G. Verocai
    • Susan J. Kutz
    • Eric P. Hoberg

    Original Paper 03 May 2018 Pages: 2125 - 2137

    

15. Skin mites in mice (Mus musculus): high prevalence of Myobia sp. (Acari, Arachnida) in Robertsonian mice

    • Natalia Sastre
    • Oriol Calvete
    • Jacint Ventura

    Original Paper 04 May 2018 Pages: 2139 - 2148

    

16. New insights on the role of the holoplanktonic mollusk Firoloida desmarestia (Gastropoda: Pterotracheidae) as host for digenetic trematodes

    • José Raúl Morales-Ávila
    • Ricardo Javier Saldierna-Martínez
    • Juan Violante-González

    Original Paper 07 May 2018 Pages: 2149 - 2158

    

17. A survey of hemoparasites and ectoparasites in Nasua nasua Linnaeus, 1766 with a redescription of Hepatozoon procyonis Richards, 1961 based on morphological and molecular data

    • Maria Regina Lucas da Silva
    • Felipe Fornazari
    • Lucia Helena O’Dwyer

    Original Paper 07 May 2018 Pages: 2159 - 2169

    

18. Three new species of Clinostomum Leidy, 1856 (Trematoda) from Middle American fish-eating birds

    • Ana L. Sereno-Uribe
    • Martín García-Varela
    • Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

    Original Paper 05 May 2018 Pages: 2171 - 2185

    

19. Detecting local transmission of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites (Apicomlexa, Haemosporida) at a Special Protection Area of Natura 2000 network

    • Dimitar Dimitrov
    • Mihaela Ilieva
    • Pavel Zehtindjiev

    Original Paper 05 May 2018 Pages: 2187 - 2199

    

20. High frequency of Taenia pisiformis metacestodes and high sex-associated susceptibility to cysticercosis in naturally infected wild rabbits

    • R. Domínguez-Roldan
    • M. Pérez-Martínez
    • C. Hallal-Calleros

    Original Paper 10 May 2018 Pages: 2201 - 2206

    

21. Occurrence of selected zoonotic food-borne parasites and first molecular identification of Alaria alata in wild boars (Sus scrofa) in Italy

    • Alessia Libera Gazzonis
    • Luca Villa
    • Maria Teresa Manfredi

    Original Paper 11 May 2018 Pages: 2207 - 2215

22. The helminth community component species of the wood mouse as biological tags of a ten post-fire-year regeneration process in a Mediterranean ecosystem

    • Sandra Sáez-Durán
    • Ángela L. Debenedetti
    • Màrius V. Fuentes

    Original Paper 10 May 2018 Pages: 2217 - 2231

23. First record of two ectoparasitic ciliates of the genus Trichodina (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) parasitizing gills of an invasive freshwater fish, Micropercops swinhonis, in Tibet

    • Zhe Wang
    • Qiong Deng
    • Zemao Gu

    Original Paper 26 May 2018 Pages: 2233 - 2242

    

24. Antimalarial activity and metabolism of dihydroartemisinin-derived dimer

    • Guoshun Zhang
    • Hualing Dai
    • Shuqiu Zhang

    Original Paper 15 May 2018 Pages: 2243 - 2254

    

25. Increased IL-27/IL-27R expression in association with the immunopathology of murine ocular toxoplasmosis

    • Xinxin Tong
    • Shengjie Chen
    • Fangli Lu

    Original Paper 19 May 2018 Pages: 2255 - 2263

    

26. A lentiviral vaccine expressing KMP11-HASPB fusion protein increases immune response to Leishmania major in BALB/C

    • Nahid Mortazavidehkordi
    • Ali Fallah
    • Seyed Hossein Hejazi

    Original Paper 29 May 2018 Pages: 2265 - 2273

    

27. Tracking Toxoplasma gondii in freshwater ecosystems: interaction with the invasive American mink (Neovison vison) in Spain

    • Maria P. Ribas
    • Sonia Almería
    • Oscar Cabezón

    Original Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 2275 - 2281

    

28. The cellulose synthase BcsA plays a role in interactions of Salmonella typhimurium with Acanthamoeba castellanii genotype T4

    • Muhammad Arslan Gill
    • Muhammad Wasim Rafique
    • Irfan Ahmad

    Original Paper 24 May 2018 Pages: 2283 - 2289

    

29. Molecular epidemiology of parasitic protozoa and Ehrlichia canis in wildlife in Madrid (central Spain)

    • Angel Criado-Fornelio
    • T. Martín-Pérez
    • J. Pérez-Serrano

    Original Paper 18 May 2018 Pages: 2291 - 2298

30. Hammondia sp. oocysts shed by a Brazilian fox (Lycalopex vetulus) differ from Hammondia heydorni and Hammondia triffittae

    • Luís F. P. Gondim
    • Rodrigo M. Soares
    • Anderson L. de Carvalho

    Original Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 2299 - 2304

    

31. Can we predict the success of a parasite to colonise an invasive host?

    • Luther van der Mescht
    • Irina S. Khokhlova
    • Boris R. Krasnov

    Original Paper 24 May 2018 Pages: 2305 - 2314

    

32. An unexpected case of a Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax) infected with the giant thorny-headed worm (Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus) on the mainland of Japan (Honshu)

    • Koichiro Kamimura
    • Kenzo Yonemitsu
    • Hiroshi Sato

    Original Paper 30 May 2018 Pages: 2315 - 2322

    

33. Visceral leishmaniasis from a non-endemic Himalayan region of Nepal

    • Mitesh Shrestha
    • Basu Dev Pandey
    • Kishor Pandey

    Short Communication 02 May 2018 Pages: 2323 - 2326

    

34. Effects of miconazole/clotrimazole and praziquantel combinations against the liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus in vivo and in vitro

    • Maria Y. Pakharukova
    • Yuri V. Pakharukov
    • Viatcheslav A. Mordvinov

    Short Communication 02 May 2018 Pages: 2327 - 2331

35. Parasitological and molecular diagnostic of a clinical Babesia caballi outbreak in Southern Romania

    • Mariana Ionita
    • Isabela Madalina Nicorescu
    • Ioan Liviu Mitrea

    Short Communication 15 May 2018 Pages: 2333 - 2339

    

36. An assessment of the use of cox1 and cox3 mitochondrial genetic markers for the identification of Dictyocaulus spp. (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) in wild ruminants

    • Anna M. Pyziel
    • Zdzisław Laskowski
    • Johan Höglund

    Short Communication 07 May 2018 Pages: 2341 - 2345

    

37. Heartworm on the rise—new insights into Dirofilaria immitis epidemiology

    • Martina Miterpáková
    • Dana Valentová
    • Ľudmila Berešíková

    Short Communication 17 May 2018 Pages: 2347 - 2350

    

38. First morphological and molecular analysis of Eucoleus boehmi like eggs in dogs from Argentina

    • Carla Mariela Lavallén
    • Romina Sandra Petrigh
    • Marcela Cecilia Dopchiz

    Short Communication 18 May 2018 Pages: 2351 - 2357