Public health insecticides play a crucial role in malaria control and elimination programmes.
Many other arthropods, including mechanical and biological vectors of infectious diseases …

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne infectious disease with a long history of infecting humans
and other animals. It is a known emerging or resurging disease. The host nutritional state …

Abstract Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are alternative methods for microscopy
in the diagnosis of malaria in resource limited settings. Among commercially available …

Phlebotomine sandflies have a long history of association with humans, which makes them
the only proven natural vectors of Leishmania species, the parasitic protozoans that cause …

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) due to Leishmania donovani is a neglected protozoan parasitic
disease in humans, which is usually fatal if untreated. Phlebotomus orientalis, the …

Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a vector-borne disease caused by species of the L.
donovani complex, has (re)-emerged in Ethiopia during the last two decades and is currently …

Abstract Background In the Somali region of Ethiopia, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a public
health concern. However, VL epidemiology and sand fly vectors have not been well studied …

Abstract Background The Leishmaniases are caused by the protozoan parasites of the
genus Leishmania and are transmitted to humans by the bite of infected female …

Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) also known as kala-azar is a growing health
problem in Ethiopia with an estimated annual VL incidence between 3700 and 7400. The …

Background Certain salivary proteins of phlebotomine sand flies injected into the host skin
during blood-feeding are highly antigenic and elicit strong antibody-mediated immune …