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    • An insight into the sialome, mialome and virome of the horn fly, Haematobia irritans 

      Ribeiro, J.M.; Debat, Humberto Julio; Boiani, M.; Ures, X.; Rocha, S.; Breijo, M. (BMC, 2019-07-29)
      Background: The horn fly (Haematobia irritans) is an obligate blood feeder that causes considerable economic losses in livestock industries worldwide. The control of this cattle pest is mainly based on insecticides; ...

    • An insight into the sialotranscriptome and virome of Amazonian anophelines 

      Scarpassa, Vera Margarete; Debat, Humberto Julio; Alencar, Ronildo Baiatone; Ferreira Saraiva, José; Calvo, Eric; Arcà, Bruno; Ribeiro, José M. C. (BioMed Central, 2019)
      Background: Saliva of mosquitoes contains anti-platelet, anti-clotting, vasodilatory, anti-complement and antiinflammatory substances that help the blood feeding process. The salivary polypeptides are at a fast pace ...

    • Babesiosis prevalence in malaria-endemic regions of Colombia 

      González Obando, Juliana; Echaide, Ignacio Eduardo; Pabón Vidal, Adriana Lucía; Piñeros Jiménez, Juan Gabriel; Blair Trujillo, Silvia; Tobón Castaño, Alberto (Wolters Kluwer, 2018-07)
      Background & objectives: The presence of Babesia spp in humans, bovine cattle and ticks (the transmitting vector) has not been well characterized in Colombia. Babesia infection in humans can be overlooked due to similarity ...

    • CRISPR/Cas9 and genetic screens in malaria parasites : small genomes, big impact 

      Ishizaki, Takahiro; Hernandez, Sophia; Paoletta, Martina; Sanderson, Theo; Bushell, Ellen S. C. (Portland Press, 2022-06)
      The ∼30 Mb genomes of the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria each encode ∼5000 genes, but the functions of the majority remain unknown. This is due to a paucity of functional annotation from sequence homology, which ...