Vito Colella

Risk profiling and efficacy of albendazole against the hookworms Necator americanus and Ancylostoma ceylanicum in Cambodia to support control programs in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

Vito Colella, Virak Khieu, Andrew Worsley, Dammika Senevirathna, Sinuon Muth, Rekol Huy, Peter Odermatt, Rebecca J Traub

Journal article  |  2021  |  Lancet Reg Health West Pac

Background: Hookworm disease is endemic throughout many parts of the Asia Pacific, despite targeted control programs of at-risk po..

Translational research of zoonotic parasites: Toward improved tools for diagnosis, treatment and control

V Colella, RJ Traub, RB Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  Pathogens

A range of factors, including social, demographic and economic transformation and human-induced environmental changes, are influen..

Molecular detection of Trypanosoma evansi in dogs from India and Southeast Asia

Viet-Linh Nguyen, Roberta Iatta, Ranju Ravindran Santhakumari Manoj, Vito Colella, Marcos Antonio Bezerra-Santos, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, Domenico Otranto

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACTA TROPICA

Trypanosoma evansi, the causative agent of surra, is a hemoflagellate protozoan mechanically transmitted by hematophagous flies, m..

Zoonotic Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Free-Roaming Dogs, Kiribati

Patsy A Zendejas-Heredia, Allison Crawley, Helen Byrnes, Rebecca J Traub, Vito Colella

Journal article  |  2021  |  EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Soil-transmitted helminths are highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. We report a 96.5% prevalence of zoonotic soil-transmit..

Canine gastrointestinal parasites as a potential source of zoonotic infections in Nigeria: A nationwide survey

Joshua Kamani, Luca Massetti, Toyin Olubade, Jimmy A Balami, Kennedy M Samdi, Rebecca J Traub, Vito Colella, Javier Gonzalez-Miguel

Journal article  |  2021  |  PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE

Dog feces may contain zoonotic parasites that contaminate the environment and serve as a potential source of infection to animals ..

A multipronged next-generation sequencing metabarcoding approach unearths hyper-diverse and abundant dog pathogen communities in Cambodia

Lucas G Huggins, Vito Colella, Anson V Koehler, Bettina Schunack, Rebecca J Traub

Journal article  |  2021  |  Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Recent surveys in Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, have identified canine vector-borne pathogens (VBPs), including those with z..

Ancylostoma ceylanicum

Vito Colella, Richard Bradbury, Rebecca Traub

Journal article  |  2021  |  Trends in Parasitology

Comparison of the egg recovery rates and limit of detection for soil-transmitted helminths using the Kato-Katz thick smear, faecal flotation and quantitative real-time PCR in human stool

Patsy A Zendejas-Heredia, Vito Colella, Sze Fui Hii, Rebecca J Traub

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

BACKGROUND: Monitoring the success of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) control programs relies on accurate diagnosis and quantitati..

Novel High-Throughput Multiplex qPCRs for the Detection of Canine Vector-Borne Pathogens in the Asia-Pacific

Lucas Huggins, Luca Massetti, Bettina Schunack, Vito Colella, Rebecca Traub

Journal article  |  2021  |  MICROORGANISMS

The Asia-Pacific hosts a large diversity of canine vector-borne pathogens (VBPs) with some of the most common and most pathogenic,..

Efficacy of a spot-on formulation containing moxidectin 2.5%/imidacloprid 10% for the treatment of Cercopithifilaria spp. and Onchocerca lupi microfilariae in naturally infected dogs from Portugal.

Domenico Otranto, Vito Colella, Marcos Antônio Bezerra-Santos, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, Maria Alfonsa Cavalera, André Pereira, Roland Schaper, Carla Maia

Journal article  |  2021  |  Parasit Vectors

BACKGROUND: Onchocerca lupi and Cercopithifilaria spp. are vector-borne filarioids of dogs, which harbour skin microfilariae (mfs)..