Prof. Vitaliy A. Kharchenko

Research interests

• Rhabditid and strongylid nematodes of vertebrates
• Taxonomy and phylogeny of Strongylidae
• Parasites of horses, cattle and sheep
• Parasites of game animals and their control
• Anthelmintic resistance
• Predatory fungi for biological control of parasitic nematodes

Current projects

Selected publications

1. Lichtenfels, J.R., Kharchenko, V.A. and Dvojnos, G.M. (2008) ‘Illustrated identification keys to strongylid parasites (Strongylidae: Nematoda) of horses, zebras and asses (Equidae)’, Veterinary Parasitology, 156(1–2), pp. 4–161. DOI PDF Online keys
2. Lichtenfels, J.R., Kharchenko, V.A., Krecek, R.C. and Gibbons, L.M. (1998) ‘An annotated checklist by genus and species of 93 species level names for 51 recognized species of small strongyles (Nematoda: Strongyloidea: Cyathostominea) of horses, asses and zebras of the world’, Veterinary Parasitology, 79, pp. 65–79. Link
3. Sałamatin, R.V., Pavlikovska, T.M., Sagach, O.S., Nikolayenko, S.M., Kornyushin, V.V., Kharchenko, V.A., Masny, A., Cielecka, D., Konieczna-Sałamatin, J., Conn, D.B. and Gołąb, E. (2013) ‘Human dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens in Ukraine, an emergent zoonosis: epidemiological report of 1465 cases’, Acta Parasitologica, 58(4), pp. 592–598. DOI
4. Kuzmina, T.A., Dzeverin, I. and Kharchenko, V.A. (2016) ‘Strongylids in domestic horses: influence of horse age, breed and deworming programs on the strongyle parasite community’, Veterinary Parasitology, 227, pp. 56–63. DOI
5. Kuzmina, T.A. and Kharchenko, V.O. (2008) ‘Anthelmintic resistance in cyathostomins of brood horses in Ukraine and influence of anthelmintic treatments on strongylid community structure’, Veterinary Parasitology, 154(3–4), pp. 277–288. DOI
6. Kharchenko, V.O., Korneyev, V.O. and Filimonova, N.S. (2026) ‘Phantom references and the peer-review crisis: how artificial intelligence tests the resilience of scientific periodicals’, Zoodiversity, 60(3), pp. 301–308. DOI

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Editorial and professional service

Journals and books

• 2022 –Editor-in-Chief, Zoodiversity
• 2003 – 2021Deputy Editor, Vestnik Zoologii (now Zoodiversity) · talk “Ukrainian Science in the Global Information Space”, 2012 (in Ukrainian)
• 2018 –Editor, Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health
• 2012 –Editorial Board, Zoology and Ecology; Tropical Parasitology
• 2011 –Editorial Board, Fauna of Ukraine
• 2015Editor, The bibliography of the research group for ecological control of hydrobiont parasitoses (1970–2014), by O. N. Davydov & L. Ya. Kurovskaya. Kyiv, 2015, 62 p. (in Russian)
• 2011 – 2012Editorial Board, vol. 4 of the Selected Works of Academician V. I. Vernadsky: Geochemistry of Living Matter (book 1, book 2), marking the 150th anniversary of his birth
• 2011Scientific Editor, Vestnik Zoologii Supplement 25: V. M. Tytar, Analysis of home ranges in species: an approach based on modelling the ecological niche
• 2006Scientific Editor, Ukrainian edition of K. Niewiadomska, T. Pojmańska, B. Machnicka, A. Czubaj, Zarys parazytologii ogólnej (Kyiv: Naukova Dumka)
• 2002 – 2004Scientific Editor, Ukrainian edition of Scientific American
• —Translator, Ukrainian edition of Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 29th ed.

Societies, councils and commissions

• 2022 –Deputy Chair, Red Book of Ukraine Commission (Animals Section); Secretary of the Commission, 2017–2021
• 2022 –President, Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists (Vice-President, 2013–2022; Scientific Secretary, 2002–2013; Secretary of its Helminthological Section, 1991–1999)
• 2022 –Chair, Scientific Council of the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology (Member, 2004–2021)
• 2015 –Member, Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine
• 2014 –Deputy Chair, Scientific and Technical Council of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, NAS of Ukraine
• 2010 –Member, Polish Parasitological Society
• 2004–2021Deputy Chair, Scientific Council on Nature Reserves, Department of General Biology, NAS of Ukraine

Grants

• 2011 – 2013State Agency for Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine: biodiversity and phylogeny of strongylids (Nematoda: Strongylidae) of domestic and wild horses, and efficacy of horse parasite control programmes in Ukraine and China
• 2002 – 2003CRDF (USA), programme coordinator: comparative morphology, phylogenetic analysis and classification of strongylid nematodes of Equidae
• 1994International Science Foundation (USA): individual grant and research grant for the study of horse strongylids

Conferences, research visits, talks and photo galleries are on the Talks & Galleries page. Field work: all regions of Ukraine.