With elimination of trachoma as a public health problem targeted for 2020, it is timely to reflect on the progress made so far and highlight the recent global success stories.
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Ectoparasites are of particular importance to endangered wildlife. Following on from their paper published in Parasites & Vectors, Annette Klein and Christina Strube discuss with us their research on the ectoparasites of endangered mouse lemurs in Madagascar.
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Krisztian Magori shares his preliminary analysis of the potential distribution of the longhorned tick in North America and the United States, based on extrapolating a simple rule-based climate envelope model developed for New Zealand.
Larval stages of some flukes produce a soldier caste that helps to protect the colony if another species of fluke invades their snail host. New work shows this to be more common than was previously thought.