Corduneanu A, Bendjeddou ML, Sándor AD, Mihalca AD, Hornok S, Péter Á, Khelfaoui F, Aželytè J, Obregon D, Mateos-Hernández L, Maitre A, Abuin-Denis L, Wu-Chuang A, Kratou M, Ben Said M, Cabezas-Cruz A. Microbial network assembly in bat flies with differing host specificity from North Africa. Int Microbiol. 2025 Dec;28(8):2929-2946. doi: 10.1007/s10123-025-00720-0.
Sándor AD, Domșa C, Péter Á, Hornok S. Ixodid ticks of Western Palearctic bats: ecology, host-parasite relationships, geographic distribution and zoonotic importance. Front Vet Sci. 2025 Jun 18;12:1517704. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1517704.
Péter Á, Beke B, László Z, Hornok S, Sándor AD. Contrasting effects of body condition on ectoparasite abundance in a social bat: different roles of season and host sex. Int J Parasitol. 2025 Aug;55(10):537-546. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2025.04.015.
Bendjeddou ML, Khelfaoui F, Abiadh A, Mechouk N, Mihalca AD, Sándor AD. Bat Ectoparasites (Acari, Diptera, Hemiptera, Siphonaptera) in the Grand Maghreb (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia): A Literature Review and New Data. Acta Parasitol. 2024 Mar;69(1):106-120. doi: 10.1007/s11686-023-00732-8.
Szentiványi T, Takács N, Sándor AD, Péter Á, Boldogh SA, Kováts D, Foster JT, Estók P, Hornok S. Bat-associated ticks as a potential link for vector-borne pathogen transmission between bats and other animals. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Oct 25;18(10):e0012584. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012584.
Sándor AD, Corduneanu A, Orlova M, Hornok S, Cabezas-Cruz A, Foucault-Simonin A, Kulisz J, Zając Z, Borzan M. Diversity of bartonellae in mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae and Spinturnicidae) of boreal forest bats: Association of host specificity of mites and habitat selection of hosts with vector potential. Med Vet Entomol. 2024 Dec;38(4):518-529. doi: 10.1111/mve.12757.
Hornok S, Kontschán J, Takano A, Gotoh Y, Hassanin A, Tu VT. Description of Ixodes lanigeri sp. nov., a new hard tick species (Acari, Ixodidae) collected from mouse-eared bats (Vespertilionidae, Myotis) in Vietnam. Zookeys. 2024 Oct 14;1215:107-125. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.123624.
Sandor AD, Corduneanu A, Hornok S, Mihalca AD, Peter A. (2024) Season and host-community composition inside roosts may affect host-specificity of bat flies.
Scientific Reports14: 1 Paper: 4127, 12 p. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-54143-4
Fedorov D, Hornok S. (2024) Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries.
Zookeys 1201: pp. 255-343., 89 p. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/115467/
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Corduneanu A, Wu-Chuang A, Maitre A, Obregon D, Sándor AD, Cabezas-Cruz A (2023) Structural differences in the gut microbiome of bats using terrestrial vs. aquatic feeding resources. BMC Microbiology 23: 93. doi: 10.1186/s12866-023-02836-7, IF: 4.2
Barti L, Sándor AD (2023) First records of Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus euryale Blasius, 1853) (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Romanian Dobrudja, Black Sea region. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 75: 187-192. IF: 0.5
Corduneanu A, Zając Z, Kulisz J, Foucault-Simonin A, Moutailler S, Wu-Chuang A, Péter Á, Sándor AD, Cabezas-Cruz A (2023) Detection of bacterial and protozoan pathogens in individual bats and their ectoparasites using high throughput microfluidic real-time PCR. Microbiology Spectrum 11: e01531-23. 10.1128/spectrum.01531-23, IF: 3.7
Attaullah A, Ali S, Javid A, Imran M, Khan TM, Phelps K, Hornok S (2023). Phylogenetic relationships of a novel bat fly species infesting the geographically widespread Old World fruit bat, Rousettus leschenaultii, in Southern Asia. Parasitology Research 2023 (10). http://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-023-07909-0
Takano A, Yamauchi T, Takahashi M, Shimoda H, Gotoh Y, Mizuno J, Hornok S. (2023). Description of three new bat-associated species of hard ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) from Japan. Zookeys 1180: 1–26. http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1180.108418
Péter, Á, et al. Focus on Hyperparasites: Biotic and Abiotic Traits Affecting the Prevalence of Parasitic Microfungi on Bat Ectoparasites. Front Evol. 2022 Feb 10 795020 doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.795020.
Péter R, Mihalca AD, Sandor AD. Annotated checklist of the bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) of Romania. Zootaxa. 2022 Mar 24;5120(1):111-127. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.7.
Szentiványi T, Hornok S, Kovács ÁB, Takács N, Gyuranecz M, Markotter W, Christe P, Glaizot O. Polyctenidae (Hemiptera: Cimicoidea) species in the Afrotropical region: Distribution, host specificity, and first insights to their molecular phylogeny. Ecol Evol. 2022 Oct 1;12(10):e9357. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9357.
Péter Á, Mihalca AD, Sándor AD. First report of the bat fly species Basilia italica in Romania. Biodivers Data J. 2021 Jan 18;9:e57680. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e57680.
Matei IA, Corduneanu A, Sándor AD, Ionică AM, Panait L, Kalmár Z, Ivan T, Papuc I, Bouari C, Fit N, Mihalca AD. Rickettsia spp. in bats of Romania: high prevalence of Rickettsia monacensis in two insectivorous bat species. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Feb 10;14(1):107. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04592-x.
Sándor AD, Péter Á, Corduneanu A, Barti L, Csősz I, Kalmár Z, Hornok S, Kontschán J, Mihalca AD. Wide Distribution and Diversity of Malaria-Related Haemosporidian Parasites (Polychromophilus spp.) in Bats and Their Ectoparasites in Eastern Europe. Microorganisms. 2021 Jan 22;9(2):230. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9020230.
Péter Á, Barti L, Corduneanu A, Hornok S, Mihalca AD, Sándor AD. First record of Ixodes simplex found on a human host, with a review of cases of human infestation by bat tick species occurring in Europe. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2021 Jul;12(4):101722. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101722.
Sándor AD, Mihalca AD, Domşa C, Péter Á, Hornok S. Argasid Ticks of Palearctic Bats: Distribution, Host Selection, and Zoonotic Importance. Front Vet Sci. 2021 Jun 22;8:684737. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.684737.
Hornok S, Szentiványi T, Takács N, Kovács ÁB, Glaizot O, Christe P, Fasel N, Gyuranecz M, Kontschán J. Latrocimicinae completes the phylogeny of Cimicidae: meeting old morphologic data rather than modern host phylogeny. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Sep 3;14(1):441. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04932-x.
Haelewaters D, Dima B, Abdel-Hafiz AII, Abdel-Wahab MA, Abul-Ezz SR, Acar I, Aguirre-Acosta E, Aime MC, Aldemir S, Ali M et al. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 6. SYD. 2020 Jan; 72, 126: 231-356. doi: 10.12905/0380.sydowia72-2020-0231
de Groot MD, Dumolein I, Hiller T, Sándor AD, Szentiványi T, Schilthuizen M, Aime MC, Verbeken A, Haelewaters D. On the Fly: Tritrophic Associations of Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi. J Fungi (Basel). 2020 Dec 12;6(4):361. doi: 10.3390/jof6040361.
Zhao S, Yang M, Liu G, Hornok S, Zhao S, Sang C, Tan W, Wang Y. Rickettsiae in the common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae). Parasit Vectors. 2020 Jan 9;13(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-3885-x.
McKee CD, Krawczyk AI, Sándor AD, Görföl T, Földvári M, Földvári G, Dekeukeleire D, Haarsma A-, Kosoy MY, Webb CT, Sprong H. Host phylogeny, geographic overlap, and roost sharing shape parasite communities in european bats. Front Ecol Evol 2019 Marc;7(69). doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00069
Hornok S, Szőke K, Meli ML, Sándor AD, Görföl T, Estók P, Wang Y, Tu VT, Kováts D, Boldogh SA, Corduneanu A, Sulyok KM, Gyuranecz M, Kontschán J, Takács N, Halajian A, Epis S, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Molecular detection of vector-borne bacteria in bat ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) from eight countries of the Old and New Worlds. Parasit Vectors. 2019 Jan 22;12(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3303-4.
Sándor AD, Corduneanu A, Péter Á, Mihalca AD, Barti L, Csősz I, Szőke K, Hornok S. Bats and ticks: host selection and seasonality of bat-specialist ticks in eastern Europe. Parasit Vectors. 2019 Dec 27;12(1):605. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3861-5.
Liu X, Yan B, Wang Q, Jiang M, Tu C, Chen C, Hornok S, Wang Y. Babesia vesperuginis in Common Pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus) and the Bat Soft Tick Argas vespertilionis in the People's Republic of China. J Wildl Dis. 2018 Apr;54(2):419-421. doi: 10.7589/2017-08-206.
Hornok S, Szőke K, Estók P, Krawczyk A, Haarsma AJ, Kováts D, Boldogh SA, Morandini P, Szekeres S, Takács N, Kontschán J, Meli ML, Fernández de Mera IG, de la Fuente J, Gyuranecz M, Sulyok KM, Weibel B, Gönczi E, de Bruin A, Sprong H, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Assessing bat droppings and predatory bird pellets for vector-borne bacteria: molecular evidence of bat-associated Neorickettsia sp. in Europe. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2018 Sep;111(9):1707-1717. doi: 10.1007/s10482-018-1043-7.
Hornok S, Corduneanu A, Kontschán J, Bekő K, Szőke K, Görföl T, Gyuranecz M, Sándor AD. Analyses of separate and concatenated cox1 and 18S rRNA gene sequences indicate that the bat piroplasm Babesia vesperuginis is phylogenetically close to Cytauxzoon felis and the 'prototheilerid' Babesia conradae. Acta Vet Hung. 2018 Mar;66(1):107-115. doi: 10.1556/004.2018.010.
Sándor AD, Földvári M, Krawczyk AI, Sprong H, Corduneanu A, Barti L, Görföl T, Estók P, Kováts D, Szekeres S, László Z, Hornok S, Földvári G. Eco-epidemiology of Novel Bartonella Genotypes from Parasitic Flies of Insectivorous Bats. Microb Ecol. 2018 Nov;76(4):1076-1088. doi: 10.1007/s00248-018-1195-z.
Sándor AD, Kontschán J, Plantard O, Péter Á, Hornok S. Illustrated redescription of the male of Ixodes simplex Neumann, 1906. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2018 Jul;9(5):1328-1330. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.05.011.
Corduneanu A, Sándor AD, Ionică AM, Hornok S, Leitner N, Bagó Z, Stefke K, Fuehrer HP, Mihalca AD. Bartonella DNA in heart tissues of bats in central and eastern Europe and a review of phylogenetic relations of bat-associated bartonellae. Parasit Vectors. 2018 Aug 29;11(1):489. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3070-7.
Hornok S, Murányi D, Kontschán J, Tan Tu V. Description of a new bat-associated bug species of the Cimex lectularius group from Vietnam. Acta Vet Hung. 2018 Dec;66(4):607-612. doi: 10.1556/004.2018.053.
Haelewaters D, Pfliegler WP, Szentiványi T, Földvári M, Sándor AD, Barti L, Camacho JJ, Gort G, Estók P, Hiller T, Dick CW, Pfister DH. Parasites of parasites of bats: Laboulbeniales (Fungi: Ascomycota) on bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) in central Europe. Parasit Vectors. 2017 Feb 21;10(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2022-y.
Hornok S, Szőke K, Tu VT, Kontschán J, Takács N, Sándor AD, Halajian A, Földvári G, Estók P, Plantard O, Epis S, Görföl T. Mitochondrial gene heterogeneity of the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae) in the Palaearctic. Parasit Vectors. 2017 Feb 28;10(1):109. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2037-4.
Hornok S, Szőke K, Görföl T, Földvári G, Tu VT, Takács N, Kontschán J, Sándor AD, Estók P, Epis S, Boldogh S, Kováts D, Wang Y. Molecular investigations of the bat tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae) and Babesia vesperuginis (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) reflect "bat connection" between Central Europe and Central Asia. Exp Appl Acarol. 2017 May;72(1):69-77. doi: 10.1007/s10493-017-0140-z.
Hornok S, Szőke K, Boldogh SA, Sándor AD, Kontschán J, Tu VT, Halajian A, Takács N, Görföl T, Estók P. Phylogenetic analyses of bat-associated bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Cimicinae and Cacodminae) indicate two new species close to Cimex lectularius. Parasit Vectors. 2017 Sep 21;10(1):439. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2376-1.
Corduneanu A, Hrazdilová K, Sándor AD, Matei IA, Ionică AM, Barti L, Ciocănău MA, Măntoiu DȘ, Coroiu I, Hornok S, Fuehrer HP, Leitner N, Bagó Z, Stefke K, Modrý D, Mihalca AD. Babesia vesperuginis, a neglected piroplasmid: new host and geographical records, and phylogenetic relations. Parasit Vectors. 2017 Dec 6;10(1):598. doi: 10.1186/s13071-017-2536-3.
Szőke K, Sándor AD, Boldogh SA, Görföl T, Votýpka J, Takács N, Estók P, Kováts D, Corduneanu A, Molnár V, Kontschán J, Hornok S. DNA of free-living bodonids (Euglenozoa: Kinetoplastea) in bat ectoparasites: potential relevance to the evolution of parasitic trypanosomatids. Acta Vet Hung. 2017 Dec;65(4):531-540. doi: 10.1556/004.2017.051.
Hornok S, Görföl T, Estók P, Tu VT, Kontschán J. Description of a new tick species, Ixodes collaris n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), from bats (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae, Rhinolophidae) in Vietnam. Parasit Vectors. 2016 Jun 10;9(1):332. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1608-0.
Hornok S, Kováts D, Angyal D, Dányi L, Kovács R, Kontschán J. Description of the male and the larva of Ixodes ariadnae Hornok, 2014. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2016 Oct;7(6):1252-1255. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2016.07.005.
Hornok S, Szőke K, Kováts D, Estók P, Görföl T, Boldogh SA, Takács N, Kontschán J, Földvári G, Barti L, Corduneanu A, Sándor AD. DNA of Piroplasms of Ruminants and Dogs in Ixodid Bat Ticks. PLoS One. 2016 Dec 8;11(12):e0167735. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167735.
Hornok S, Krawczyk A. First record of Ixodes ariadnae in Western Europe, Belgium--Short communication. Acta Vet Hung. 2016 Dec;64(4):467-471. doi: 10.1556/004.2016.043.
Hornok S, Kontschán J, Estrada-Peña A, de Mera IG, Tomanović S, de la Fuente J. Contributions to the morphology and phylogeny of the newly discovered bat tick species, Ixodes ariadnae in comparison with I. vespertilionis and I. simplex. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Jan 24;8:47. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-0665-0.
Hornok S, Estók P, Kováts D, Flaisz B, Takács N, Szőke K, Krawczyk A, Kontschán J, Gyuranecz M, Fedák A, Farkas R, Haarsma AJ, Sprong H. Screening of bat faeces for arthropod-borne apicomplexan protozoa: Babesia canis and Besnoitia besnoiti-like sequences from Chiroptera. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Aug 28;8:441. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1052-6.
Hornok S, Estrada-Peña A, Kontschán J, Plantard O, Kunz B, Mihalca AD, Thabah A, Tomanović S, Burazerović J, Takács N, Görföl T, Estók P, Tu VT, Szőke K, Fernández de Mera IG, de la Fuente J, Takahashi M, Yamauchi T, Takano A. High degree of mitochondrial gene heterogeneity in the bat tick species Ixodes vespertilionis, I. ariadnae and I. simplex from Eurasia. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Sep 17;8:457. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1056-2.
Hornok S, Takács N, Szőke K, Kunz B. First record of Ixodes ariadnae in Germany - Short communication. Acta Vet Hung. 2015 Sep;63(3):347-51. doi: 10.1556/004.2015.032.
Hornok S, Kontschán J, Kováts D, Kovács R, Angyal D, Görföl T, Polacsek Z, Kalmár Z, Mihalca AD. Bat ticks revisited: Ixodes ariadnae sp. nov. and allopatric genotypes of I. vespertilionis in caves of Hungary. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Apr 27;7:202. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-202.
Hornok S, Kovács R, Meli ML, Gönczi E, Hofmann-Lehmann R, Kontschán J, Gyuranecz M, Dán A, Molnár V. First detection of bartonellae in a broad range of bat ectoparasites. Vet Microbiol. 2012 Oct 12;159(3-4):541-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.04.003.
