First clinical cases of leishmaniosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) housed in wildlife parks in Madrid, Spain by Pablo Moraleda-Berral, Rosa Gálvez, Eva Martínez-Nevado, Lino Pérez de Quadros, Juncal García, Manuel de la Riva-Fraga, Juan Pedro Barrera, Efrén Estévez-Sánchez, Lourdes Cano, Rocío Checa, María Ángeles Jiménez-Martínez, Ana Montoya, Guadalupe Miró

“…Serological tests [rK-39 and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)] and molecular tests [nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time PCR] were performed to detect Leishmania DNA. Additionally, an entomological study was carried out in both zoological parks, with molecular tests performed on female Phlebotomus perniciosus sand flies to determine their blood meal source and detect Leishmania DNA. …”
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Breeding Habitat Preference of the Dengue Vector Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from Urban, Semiurban, and Rural Areas in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka by J. M. Manel K. Herath, W. A. Priyanka P. De Silva, Thilini C. Weeraratne, S. H. P. Parakrama Karunaratne

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Estimation of alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) economic damage based on the larval laboratory feeding rate by Mahsa Ghahramani, Seyed Ali Safavi, Shahzad Iranipour

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Impact of potassium and salicylic acid on predator performance: Life table analysis of Typhlodromips caspiansis Denmark &Daneshvar (Acari: Phytoseiidae) by Zahra Mahpoya, Jabraeil Razmjou, Sirus Aghajanzadeh, Seyed Ali Asghar Fathi, Mahdi Hassanpour

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Previous Crop and Cultivar Effects on Methane Emissions from Drill-Seeded, Delayed-Flood Rice Grown on a Clay Soil by Alden D. Smartt, Kristofor R. Brye, Christopher W. Rogers, Richard J. Norman, Edward E. Gbur, Jarrod T. Hardke, Trenton L. Roberts

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Early warning systems (EWSs) for chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, and Zika outbreaks: What is the evidence? A scoping review. by Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Tatiana Rivera Ramírez, Axel Kroeger, Ernesto Gozzer, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger

“…Key findings were the following: (1) a large number of studies showed the quality performance of their prediction models but except for dengue outbreaks, only few presented statistical prediction validity of EWS; (2) while entomological, epidemiological, and social media alarm indicators are potentially useful for outbreak warning, almost all studies focus primarily or exclusively on meteorological indicators, which tends to limit the prediction capacity; (3) no assessment of the integration of the EWS into a routine surveillance system could be found, and only few studies addressed the users' perspective of the tool; (4) almost all EWS tools require highly skilled users with advanced statistics; and (5) spatial prediction remains a limitation with no tool currently able to map high transmission areas at small spatial level.…”
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Resistance of Chitti bean genotypes of promising to two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch in greenhouse conditions by Sedigheh Ashtari, Behrouz Asadi, Hamid Reza Dorri

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Glossina pallidipes Density and Trypanosome Infection Rate in Arba Minch Zuria District of Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Ephrem Tora, Wasihun Seyoum, Firew Lejebo

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from January to June 2018 in two purposely selected kebeles of Arbaminch Zuria district and in the escarpments of Nech Sar National Park of Southern Ethiopia. For entomological survey, a total of 40 standard NGU traps were deployed around the watering and grazing areas. …”
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Biochemical, ecological and molecular characterization of Xenorhabdus anantnagensis associated with Steinernema anantnagense from India: evaluating nematode efficacy against Helico... by Krishnapriya Okram, Aashaq Hussain Bhat, Ladoi Drema

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Characteristics of the smallest brucellaphage with strong lytic ability by Hongbaiyu Liu, Hongbaiyu Liu, Youhong Zhong, Zhihong Zhang, Kehong Xu, Kehong Xu, Chunpeng Mao, Chunpeng Mao, Qiuju Yang, Lihua Yang, Binbin Yu, Ying Long, Ying Long, Xinyu Qin, Xinyu Qin, Liyuan Shi, Sheng Chang, Yuanying Shen, Peng Wang

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