International Journal for Parasitology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal for Parasitology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Taxonomy and molecular epidemiology of Cryptosporidium and Giardia – a 50 year perspective (1971–2021)174
Control of human toxoplasmosis109
A journey through 50 years of research relevant to the control of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminant livestock and thoughts on future directions52
The “tropical lineage” of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato identified as Rhipicephalus linnaei ( )50
Association of the invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis tick with vertebrate hosts, other native tick vectors, and tick-borne pathogens in New York City, USA49
Experimental evidence of harmful effects of Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim on honey bees46
The yin and yang of human soil-transmitted helminth infections43
A repeatable and quantitative DNA metabarcoding assay to characterize mixed strongyle infections in horses42
The influence of liver fluke infection on production in sheep and cattle: a meta-analysis38
Genetic and biological characterisation of three cryptic Eimeria operational taxonomic units that infect chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)37
Extracellular vesicles produced by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis contain a preferential cargo of tRNA-derived small RNAs33
Macrocyclic lactone resistance in Dirofilaria immitis: risks for prevention of heartworm disease32
Revisiting the phylogeny of microsporidia31
Shortened egg reappearance periods of equine cyathostomins following ivermectin or moxidectin treatment: morphological and molecular investigation of efficacy and species composition30
Zoonotic hookworms of dogs and cats – lessons from the past to inform current knowledge and future directions of research29
Potential functions of atypical memory B cells in Plasmodium-exposed individuals28
Protein kinases in Toxoplasma gondii28
Microhabitat distributions and species interactions of ectoparasites on the gills of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria, Tanzania28
Fifty years of the schistosome tegument: discoveries, controversies, and outstanding questions28
High prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale in co-infections with Plasmodium falciparum in asymptomatic malaria parasite carriers in southwestern Nigeria28
Migratory birds have higher prevalence and richness of avian haemosporidian parasites than residents27
The rise of ecological parasitology: twelve landmark advances that changed its history26
Comparative analysis of gene expression between Babesia bovis blood stages and kinetes allowed by improved genome annotation26
Advances in the treatment, diagnosis, control and scientific understanding of taeniid cestode parasite infections over the past 50 years26
A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae)25
Molecular phylogeny of Diplostomum, Tylodelphys, Austrodiplostomum and Paralaria (Digenea: Diplostomidae) necessitates systematic changes and reveals a history of evolutionary host switching events25
A 4 year observation of gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, nemabiomes and the benzimidazole resistance genotypes of Teladorsagia circumcincta on a Scottish sheep farm24
Molecular characterization of Blastocystis and Entamoeba of muskoxen and sheep in Greenland24
Geographical spread and structural basis of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine drug-resistant malaria parasites23
Projecting the potential distribution of ticks in China under climate and land use change22
Faecal egg counts and nemabiome metabarcoding highlight the genomic complexity of equine cyathostomin communities and provide insight into their dynamics in a Scottish native pony herd20
Trichinella spiralis infection ameliorated diet-induced obesity model in mice20
Strongyloides genotyping: a review of methods and application in public health and population genetics20
Faecal prevalence, distribution and risk factors associated with canine soil-transmitted helminths contaminating urban parks across Australia19
Spatio-temporal variation in environmental features predicts the distribution and abundance of Ixodes scapularis19
Modelling the potential spread of Hyalomma marginatum ticks in Europe by migratory birds19
Cryptosporidium species and subtypes in river water and riverbed sediment using next-generation sequencing19
Influence of land use and host species on parasite richness, prevalence and co-infection patterns18
A global assessment of Echinococcus multilocularis infections in domestic dogs: proposing a framework to overcome past methodological heterogeneity18
A new diagnostic approach to fast-track and increase the accessibility of gastrointestinal nematode identification from faeces: FECPAKG2 egg nemabiome metabarcoding18
Age-specific patterns of DBLα var diversity can explain why residents of high malaria transmission areas remain susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum blood stage infection throughout life17
The Leishmania donovani species complex: A new insight into taxonomy☆17
Advances in molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in dogs and cats17
First description of Lotmaria passim and Crithidia mellificae haptomonad stages in the honeybee hindgut16
Extracellular vesicles secreted by model tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta: biogenesis, ultrastructure and protein composition16
Bovine sarcocystosis: Sarcocystis species, diagnosis, prevalence, economic and public health considerations, and association of Sarcocystis species with eosinophilic myositis in cattle15
Specialist by preference, generalist by need: availability of quality hosts drives parasite choice in a natural multihost–parasite system15
First elucidation of a didymozoid life cycle: Saccularina magnacetabula n. gen. n. sp. infecting an arcid bivalve15
Climatic requirements of the eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, with a consideration of its possible geographic range up to 209015
Immunization with extracellular vesicles excreted by Toxoplasma gondii confers protection in murine infection, activating cellular and humoral responses15
Machine learning algorithms to predict the 1 year unfavourable prognosis for advanced schistosomiasis14
Assembly rules of helminth parasite communities in grey mullets: combining components of diversity14
Haemosporidian prevalence, parasitaemia and aggregation in relation to avian assemblage life history traits at different elevations14
Differential expression of microRNAs and tRNA fragments mediate the adaptation of the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica to its intermediate snail and definitive mammalian hosts14
Identification and characterization of a new 34 kDa MORN motif-containing sporozoite surface-exposed protein, Cp-P34, unique to Cryptosporidium14
Cryptosporidium equi n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae): Biological and genetic characterisations14
Global profiling of lncRNAs-miRNAs-mRNAs reveals differential expression of coding genes and non-coding RNAs in the lung of beagle dogs at different stages of Toxocara canis infection14
Temperature–parasite interaction: do trematode infections protect against heat stress?13
Plasmodium falciparum LipB mutants display altered redox and carbon metabolism in asexual stages and cannot complete sporogony in Anopheles mosquitoes13
More is less: mass-flowering fruit tree crops dilute parasite transmission between bees13
Phylogenetic reconstruction of early diverging tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) reveals ancient radiations in vertebrate hosts and biogeographic regions13
Is parasite taxonomy really in trouble? A quantitative analysis12
Intercontinental distributions, phylogenetic position and life cycles of species of Apharyngostrigea (Digenea, Diplostomoidea) illuminated with morphological, experimental, molecular and genomic data12
Blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier: another site disrupted during experimental cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA12
Dactylogyridae 2022: a meta-analysis of phylogenetic studies and generic diagnoses of parasitic flatworms using published genetic and morphological data12
Antibody kinetics and exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in cats: a seroepidemiological study12
Loss of forest cover and host functional diversity increases prevalence of avian malaria parasites in the Atlantic Forest12
Generalist nematodes dominate the nemabiome of roe deer in sympatry with sheep at a regional level12
Intrigue surrounding the life-cycles of species of Clistobothrium (Cestoda: Phyllobothriidea) parasitising large pelagic sharks12
Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomic analyses of mouse livers after tick-borne Babesia microti infection12
Non-resident definitive host presence is sufficient to sustain avian schistosome populations11
Molecular phylogeny and speciation patterns in host-specific monogeneans (Cichlidogyrus, Dactylogyridae) parasitizing cichlid fishes (Cichliformes, Cichlidae) in Lake Tanganyika11
Tracking gastrointestinal nematode risk on cattle farms through pasture contamination mapping11
Genetic parameters for resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep: a meta-analysis11
In silico analyses of neuropeptide-like protein (NLP) profiles in parasitic nematodes11
The repertoire of serine rhomboid proteases of piroplasmids of importance to animal and human health10
Impact of geography and time on genetic clusters of Opisthorchis viverrini identified by microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analysis10
Bacterial community dynamics following antibiotic exposure in a trematode parasite10
Replication and partitioning of the apicoplast genome of Toxoplasma gondii is linked to the cell cycle and requires DNA polymerase and gyrase10
Dermacentor reticulatus – a tick on its way from glacial refugia to a panmictic Eurasian population10
Assessment of the exposure to Echinococcus multilocularis associated with carnivore faeces using real-time quantitative PCR and flotation technique assays10
Tracking life cycles of parasites across a broad taxonomic scale in a marine ecosystem10
During host cell traversal and cell-to-cell passage, Toxoplasma gondii sporozoites inhabit the parasitophorous vacuole and posteriorly release dense granule protein-associated membranous trails10
Extended survival and reproductive potential of single-sex male and female Schistosoma japonicum within definitive hosts10
Eukaryote-conserved histone post-translational modification landscape in Giardia duodenalis revealed by mass spectrometry9
Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) on synanthropic small and medium-sized mammals in areas of the northeastern United States infested with the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis9
Gastropod first intermediate hosts for two species of Monorchiidae Odhner, 1911 (Trematoda): I can’t believe it’s not bivalves!9
In vitro cultivation methods for coccidian parasite research9
A review of combination adjuvants for malaria vaccines: a promising approach for vaccine development9
Transgenic pyrimethamine-resistant plasmodium falciparum reveals transmission-blocking potency of P218, a novel antifolate candidate drug9
Host exposure history and priority effects impact the development and reproduction of a dominant parasite9
Specialist versus generalist parasites: the interactions between host diversity, environment and geographic barriers in avian malaria9
Giardia duodenalis cysteine proteases cleave proteinase-activated receptor-2 to regulate intestinal goblet cell mucin gene expression9
Host traits, identity, and ecological conditions predict consistent flea abundance and prevalence on free-living California ground squirrels9
Population- and age-specific patterns of haemosporidian assemblages and infection levels in European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster)8
Validation of a serum ELISA test for cyathostomin infection in equines8
Vermetid gastropods as key intermediate hosts for a lineage of marine turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Spirorchiidae), with evidence of transmission at a turtle rookery8
Characterizations of Enterocytozoon bieneusi at new genetic loci reveal a lack of strict host specificity among common genotypes and the existence of a canine-adapted Enterocytozoon species8
The key to egress? Babesia bovis perforin-like protein 1 (PLP1) with hemolytic capacity is required for blood stage replication and is involved in the exit of the parasite from the host cell8
New technologies to study helminth development and host-parasite interactions8
Genetic diversity, phylogenetic position, and co-phylogenetic relationships of Karyolysus, a common blood parasite of lizards in the western Mediterranean8
Disrupting a Plasmodium berghei putative phospholipase impairs efficient egress of merosomes8
Species-specific patterns in cercarial emergence of Diplostomum spp. from snails Radix lagotis8
Secreted virulence factors from Heterorhabditis bacteriophora highlight its utility as a model parasite among Clade V nematodes8
Development of a CRISPR/Cas9 system in Entamoeba histolytica: proof of concept8
Novel statistical approaches to identify risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in Timor-Leste7
Opportunistic or selective? Stage-dependent feeding behavior in a wild vector of Chagas disease7
Evidence of population structuring following population genetic analyses of Fasciola hepatica from Argentina7
Differential proteomic analysis of laser-microdissected penetration glands of avian schistosome cercariae with a focus on proteins involved in host invasion7
Novel epidemiological model of gastrointestinal nematode infection to assess grazing cattle resilience by integrating host growth, parasite, grass and environmental dynamics7
Multimodal regulation of encystation in Giardia duodenalis revealed by deep proteomics7
The trypsin inhibitor-like domain is required for a serine protease inhibitor of Haemonchus contortus to inhibit host coagulation7
Update on the treatment and prevention of ocular thelaziosis (Thelazia callipaeda) in naturally infected dogs from Spain7
Schistosoma japonicum translationally controlled tumour protein, which is associated with the development of female worms, as a target for control of schistosomiasis7
Comparative genomics of Leishmania isolates from Brazil confirms the presence of Leishmania major in the Americas7
Proteomic identification of the contents of small extracellular vesicles from in vivo Plasmodium yoelii infection7
Genome-wide scan reveals important additive and non-additive genetic effects associated with resistance to Haemonchus contortus in Florida Native sheep7
Characterisation of the secreted apyrase family of Heligmosomoides polygyrus6
Parasite preferences for large host body size can drive overdispersion in a fly-mite association6
Exo-erythrocytic development of two Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae), with description of Haemoproteus dumbbellus, a new blood parasite of bunting birds (Emberizidae)6
Dark diversity of flea assemblages of small mammalian hosts: effects of environment, host traits and host phylogeny6
Gill monogeneans of neotropical cichlid fish: diversity, phylogenetic relationships, and host-parasite cophylogenetic associations6
Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (Pfcrt) and multidrug-resistant gene 1 (Pfmdr-1) in Nigerian children 10 years post-adoption of artemisinin-based combination 6
The reciprocal influence of the liver and blood stages of the malaria parasite’s life cycle6
Determinants of haemosporidian single- and co-infection risks in western palearctic birds6
Insights into the functional expansion of the astacin peptidase family in parasitic helminths6
Parasite community structure in sympatric Bornean primates6
First insights into the autophagy machinery of adult Schistosoma mansoni6
Whip- and pinworm infections elicit contrasting effector and distinct regulatory responses in wild house mice6
Helminth-induced CD9+ B-cell subset alleviates obesity-associated inflammation via IL-10 production6
Alkyne modified purines for assessment of activation of Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites and growth of pre-erythrocytic and erythrocytic stages in Plasmodium spp.6
Evaluation of genome skimming to detect and characterise human and livestock helminths6
Novelty and phylogenetic affinities of a new family of tapeworms (Cestoda: Rhinebothriidea) from endangered sawfish and guitarfish5
Host specificity of monogenean ectoparasites on fish skin and gills assessed by a metabarcoding approach5
Macroevolutionary analyses of ciliates associated with hosts support high diversification rates5
Evidence of high-efficiency cross fertilization in Eimeria acervulina revealed using two lines of transgenic parasites5
Dynamics of blood stage and sporozoite-induced malarial infections in experimentally infected passerines5
Electrophysiological characterization of a schistosome transient receptor potential channel activated by praziquantel5
Proteases and their inhibitors involved in Schistosoma mansoni egg-host interaction revealed by comparative transcriptomics with Fasciola hepatica eggs5
Assessment of a 10-year dog deworming programme on the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Tibetan communities in Sichuan Province, China5
Immunocompetent rabbits infected with Cryptosporidium cuniculus as an animal model for anti-cryptosporidial drug testing5
Characterisation of PfCZIF1 and PfCZIF2 in Plasmodium falciparum asexual stages5
Complete mitochondrial exploration of Echinococcus multilocularis from French alveolar echinococcosis patients5
Schistosoma mansoni venom allergen-like protein 6 (SmVAL6) maintains tegumental barrier function5
Phylogenomics and host-switching patterns of Philopteridae (Psocodea: Phthiraptera) feather lice5
Phylogenetic signals in flea-host interaction networks from four biogeographic realms: differences between interactors and the effects of environmental factors5
Effective low-cost preservation of human stools in field-based studies for helminth and microbiota analysis5
Two seasons of tick paralysis in Victoria yet one season in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia5
Ubiquitination pathway model for the barber’s pole worm – Haemonchus contortus5
Profiling the glycome of Cardicola forsteri, a blood fluke parasitic to bluefin tuna5
The reduced ARF regulatory system in Giardia intestinalis pre-dates the transition to parasitism in the lineage Fornicata5
A mixed amplicon metabarcoding and sequencing approach for surveillance of drug resistance to levamisole and benzimidazole in Haemonchus spp.5
Sharing is caring? Barcoding suggests co-introduction of dactylogyrid monogeneans with Nile tilapia and transfer towards native tilapias in sub-Saharan Africa5
Host specificity of coral-associated fauna and its relevance for coral reef biodiversity5
A new species of mammalian trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) bubalisi sp. nov., found in the freshwater leech Hirudinaria manillensis5
MicroRNA miR-155-5p knockdown attenuates Angiostrongylus cantonensis-induced eosinophilic meningitis by downregulating MMP9 and TSLP proteins5
PfKsgA1 functions as a transcription initiation factor and interacts with the N-terminal region of the mitochondrial RNA polymerase of Plasmodium falciparum4
Comparative proteomic profiles of Schistosoma japonicum male worms derived from single-sex and bisexual infections4
PpSP32-like protein as a marker of human exposure to Phlebotomus argentipes in Leishmania donovani foci in Bangladesh4
Mining various genomic resources to resolve old alpha-taxonomy questions: A test of the species hypothesis of the Proteocephalus longicollis species complex (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from salmonid fi4
Impacts of selective logging on haemosporidian infection and physiological correlates in tropical birds4
Resolution of systemic complications in Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice by concomitant treatment with praziquantel and Schisandrin B4
A Schistosoma mansoni tri- and tetramer microsatellite catalog for genetic population diversity and differentiation4
NemChR-DB: a database of parasitic nematode chemosensory G-protein coupled receptors4
Predictors of bovine Schistosoma japonicum infection in rural Sichuan, China4
Life history matters: Differential effects of abomasal parasites on caribou fitness4
Evidence that a lineage of teleost-infecting blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) infects bivalves as intermediate hosts4
The biodiversity of marine trematodes: then, now and in the future4
Do latitudinal and bioclimatic gradients drive parasitism in Odonata?4
Copper chloride and copper sulphate in combination with nitroxynil against gastrointestinal nematodes of ruminants: A possible hitchhiking synergic effect at low concentrations4
Longitudinal follow-up reveals occurrence of successive Cryptosporidium bovis and Cryptosporidium ryanae infections by different subtype families in dairy cattle4
The pathogenic potential of the combined action of chronic Opisthorchis felineus infection and repeated social defeat stress in C57BL/6 mice4
Functional and phylogenetic uniqueness of helminth and flea assemblages of two South African rodents4
Helminth infections: Enabling the World Health Organization Road Map4
Trich-tracker – a practical tool to trace Trichinella spiralis transmission based on rapid, cost-effective sampling of genome-wide genetic variation4
Correlated evolution of fish host length and parasite spore size: a tale from myxosporeans inhabiting elasmobranchs4
Strong mitonuclear discordance in the phylogeny of Neodermata and evolutionary rates of Polyopisthocotylea4
Mitochondrial genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Echinococcus multilocularis in Europe4
Co-introduction of Dolicirroplectanum lacustre, a monogenean gill parasite of the invasive Nile perch Lates niloticus: intraspecific diversification and mitonuclear discordance in native versus introd4
German Ixodes inopinatus samples may not actually represent this tick species4
Ultrastructural characterization of the tegument in protoscoleces of Echinococcus ortleppi4
A gastrointestinal nematode in pregnant and lactating mice alters maternal and neonatal microbiomes3
How might Gyrodactylus parasitism modify trade-offs between female preference and susceptibility of males to predation in Trinidadian guppies?3
Comparative genomics reveals unique features of two Babesia motasi subspecies: Babesia motasi lintanensis and Babesia motasi hebeiensis3
Acetate, a metabolic product of Heligmosomoides polygyrus, facilitates intestinal epithelial barrier breakdown in a FFAR2-dependent manner3
CREditing: a tool for gene tuning in Trypanosoma cruzi3
Monogenean body size, but not reproduction, increases with infracommunity density3
Monepantel-based anthelmintic combinations to optimize parasite control in cattle3
Parasite exchange and hybridisation at a wild-feral-domestic interface3
Morphological constraint obscures richness: a mitochondrial exploration of cryptic richness in Transversotrema (Trematoda: Transversotrematidae)3
Target acquired: transcriptional regulators as drug targets for protozoan parasites3
Further evaluation and validation of HybridoMed Diff 1000 and its comparison to Basch medium for the cell-free culture of Schistosoma mansoni juvenile worm stages3
Transcriptional changes associated with apoptosis and type I IFN underlie the early interaction between Besnoitia besnoiti tachyzoites and monocyte-derived macrophages3
Genome structure and population genomics of the canine heartworm Dirofilaria immitis3
Effects of ectoparasite infestation during pregnancy on physiological stress and reproductive output in a rodent-flea system3
Co-infecting Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida, Apicomplexa) show different host tissue tropism during exo-erythrocytic development in Fringilla coelebs (Fringillidae)3
The effect of landscape and human settlement on the genetic differentiation and presence of Paragonimus species in Mesoamerica3
The cell invasion preference of Varroa destructor between the original and new honey bee hosts3
Rapid, automated quantification of Haemonchus contortus ova in sheep faecal samples3
Malaria research in Australia: looking through the lens of the past towards the future3
Genetic epidemiology of lymphatic filariasis in American Samoa after mass drug administration3
A newly characterized dense granule protein (GRA76) is important for the growth and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii3
Monocyte epigenetics and innate immunity to malaria: yet another level of complexity?3
MicroRNA-1 targets ribosomal protein genes to regulate the growth, development and reproduction of Schistosoma japonicum3
Daily patterns in parasite processes: diel variation in fish louse transcriptomes3
Searching for the sweet spot of amoebic gill disease of farmed Atlantic salmon: the potential role of glycan-lectin interactions in the adhesion of Neoparamoeba perurans3
B cell clonal expansion and mutation in the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable domain in response to Pfs230 and Pfs25 malaria vaccines3
Use the force, fluke: Ligand-independent gating of Schistosoma mansoni ion channel TRPMPZQ3
Praziquantel pharmacotherapy reduces systemic osteopontin levels and liver collagen content in murine schistosomiasis mansoni3
Short-term culture adaptation of Toxoplasma gondii archetypal II and III field isolates affects cystogenic capabilities and modifies virulence in mice3
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