ReviewParasites & vectors2020
Sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in eight Balkan countries: historical review and region-wide entomological survey.
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- Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Maghreb region: A systematic review of distribution, morphology, and role in the transmission of the pathogens.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
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- Mirusha virus: A novel sand fly-borne phlebovirus with evidence of neutralizing antibodies in humans and dogs in Kosovo.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Sand fly endosymbionts in Kenya: Rickettsia and Wolbachia associations with Leishmania and detection of Rickettsia africae.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Susceptibility of diverse sand fly species to Toscana virus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Combining phylogeography and climate models to track the diversification and spread of Phlebotomus simici.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neutralization-based seroprevalence of Toscana virus and sandfly fever Sicilian virus in dogs in the Republic of Kosovo.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Monitoring of sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and pathogen screening in Slovenia with habitat suitability modeling.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Updating the distribution of sand flies in Hungary with implications on their biology and ecology.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2025Article
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- Multihost/Multivector Community Network: Disentangling Sandfly Species and Host Interactions in Avian Habitats.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Reconstructing the post-glacial spread of the sand fly Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi, 1908 (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Europe.Communications biology · 2023Article
- First Detection and Molecular Analysis ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Current Status of Vector-Borne Diseases in Croatia: Challenges and Future Prospects.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Knock, knock, knocking on EuropeCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2023Review
- Molecular Survey of Dirofilaria and Leishmania Species in Dogs from Central Balkan.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Seasonal dynamics of Phlebotomus neglectus (Diptera: Psychodidae) in cave microhabitats in Romania and the rediscovery of Sergentomyia minuta (Rondani, 1843) after 50 years.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Phlebotomine sand fly survey in the Republic of Moldova: species composition, distribution and host preferences.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Vulnerabilities to and the Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Impacts of the Leishmaniases: A Review.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundSand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are medically important vectors of human and veterinary disease-causing agents. Among these, the genus Leishmania (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), and phleboviruses are of utmost importance. Despite such significance, updated information about sand fly fauna is missing for Balkan countries where both sand flies and autochtonous leishmaniases are historically present and recently re-emerging. Therefore, a review of historical data on sand fly species composition and distribution in the region was followed by a large-scale entomological survey in eight Balkan countries to provide a recent update on local sand fly fauna.
methodsThe literature search involved the period 1910-2019. The entomological survey was conducted at 1189 sampling stations in eight countries (Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia), covering 49 settlements and 358 sampling sites between June and October in the years 2014 and 2016, accumulating 130 sampling days. We performed a total of 1189 trapping nights at these stations using two types of traps (light and CO
resultsIn total, 8490 sand fly specimens were collected. Morphological identification showed presence of 14 species belonging to genera Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia. Historical data were critically reviewed and updated with our recent findings. Six species were identified in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 new records), 5 in Montenegro (2 new records), 5 in Croatia (2 new records), 9 in Bulgaria (5 new records), 11 in North Macedonia (1 new record), 10 in Serbia (no new records), 9 in Kosovo (3 new records) and 4 in Slovenia (no new records).
conclusionsThis study presents results of the first integrated sand fly fauna survey of such scale for the Balkan region, providing first data on sand fly populations for four countries in the study area and presenting new species records for six countries and updated species lists for all surveyed countries. Our findings demonstrate presence of proven and suspected vectors of several Leishmania species.
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