abstract：:The kangaroo soft tick, Ornithodoros gurneyi Warburton, 1926, is a poorly studied argasid of the more arid regions of Australia. Anecdotal accounts have stated that this tick species will bite humans, and yet bites have not been described. Herein we report on an instance of parasitism by a nymph of O. gurneyi on a hum...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Norval G,Sharrad RD,Ross KE,Gardner MG

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite evidence to the effect that there is low parental adoption of tick-bite personal protective behavior (PPB) for their children - a population at high risk for tick exposure, very limited information is available on factors associated with parental adoption of PPB. The objective of this study was to identify the...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Omodior O,Anderson KR,Clark W,Eze P,Donohoe H

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne diseases have a complex epidemiology that depends on different ecological communities, associating several species of vertebrate hosts, vectors and pathogens. While most studies in Europe are focused on Ixodes ricinus, other Ixodes species may also be involved in the transmission or maintenance of pathogens...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Plantard O,Hoch T,Daveu R,Rispe C,Stachurski F,Boué F,Poux V,Cebe N,Verheyden H,René-Martellet M,Chalvet-Monfray K,Cafiso A,Olivieri E,Moutailler S,Pollet T,Agoulon A

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal production has a key role in global economic development and food security. Ticks, specifically Rhipicephalus microplus cause substantial economic and health impacts on more than eighty percent of the world cattle population. Though synthetic acaricides play a major role in tick management, their injudicious us...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Shanmuganath C,Kumar S,Singh R,Sharma AK,Saminathan M,Saini M,Chigure G,Fular A,Kumar R,Juliet S,Upadhaya D,Kumar B,Srivastava S,Ghosh S

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Acaricide resistance is one of the greatest threats to sustainable and effective control of vector ticks worldwide. The amitraz resistance status in cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus populations collected from 18 districts of Punjab in north-western India were characterized using bioassay and molecular assays. The ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Jyoti,Singh NK,Singh H,Singh NK,Rath SS

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma species are obligate intracellular rickettsial pathogens that affect the health of humans and animals. In this study, we investigated the presence and frequency of Anaplasma species by 16S rRNA PCR-RLB, RFLP, and DNA sequencing in 200 apparently healthy cattle. Anaplasma spp. overall infection rate was 38.5 ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Aktas M,Çolak S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia amblyommatis is widely distributed in the Americas, and has been reported to infect different species of ticks within its distribution. In Panama, R. amblyommatis is the most common Rickettsia and its presence was molecularly detected in nine species of ticks and one flea species. This work described the is...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Bermúdez C S,Zaldívar Y,Domínguez A L,Hernández M,de Antinori MEB,Krawczak FS

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann is an invasive tick species that has recently been detected in the eastern United States. We designed field studies to monitor the population dynamics of H. longicornis over a year (2019) in New Jersey, and to assess the efficacy of a pyrethroid acaricide (lambda-cyhalothrin) in contr...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Bickerton M,McSorley K,Toledo A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly assumed that Dermacentor reticulatus immature life stages are nidicolous and therefore cannot be collected from vegetation. However, in June and July of 2018 and 2019, a total of 47 questing D. reticulatus larvae and two nymphs were collected by the flagging method in two different sites close to the ci...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Schmuck HM,Chitimia-Dobler L,Król N,Kacza J,Pfeffer M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatozoon canis is a blood parasite of the suborder Adeleorina infecting wild and domestic canids. Transmission occurs by oral uptake of Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato vector ticks infected with H. canis, but vertical transmission is also assumed to be possible. In German foxes, a high prevalence of H. canis has...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Helm CS,Samson-Himmelstjerna GV,Liesner JM,Kohn B,Müller E,Schaper R,Pachnicke S,Schulze C,Krücken J

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is the deadliest rickettsiosis in the world. Although the epidemiology of the disease has been established in Brazil, there are still limited data available on distribution of tick vectors and tick species parasitizing humans in the country, particularly in Paraná State. The State of Para...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Valente JDM,Silva PW,Arzua M,Barros-Battesti DM,Martins TF,Silva AM,Vieira TSWJ,Labruna MB,Vieira RFC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic knowledge of species, ecological preferences and behavior of ticks in preserved rainforests are scanty. We herein describe species richness, seasonal activity, altitude influence and questing height of ticks along 3375 m of animal trails within the largest remain of inland Atlantic rainforest in Brazil, the Igua...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Suzin A,Vogliotti A,Nunes PH,Barbieri ARM,Labruna MB,Szabó MPJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella-like bacteria are a large group of yet-to-isolate and characterize bacteria phylogenetically close to the agent of Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, and often associated with ixodid ticks worldwide. This study was designed to assess the presence of Coxiella-like endosymbionts (CLE) in ticks and to describe their ge...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Rahal M,Medkour H,Diarra AZ,Bitam I,Parola P,Mediannikov O

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsial pathogens cause diseases that vary in severity and clinical presentation. Rickettsia species transmitted by ticks are mostly classified within the spotted fever group of rickettsiae (SFGR) and are often associated with febrile diseases. Preliminary studies have detected three human-pathogenic SFGR from tic...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Sukhiashvili R,Zhgenti E,Khmaladze E,Burjanadze I,Imnadze P,Jiang J,St John H,Farris CM,Gallagher T,Obiso RJ,Richards AL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia rickettsii is the agent of Brazilian spotted fever (BSF), the most lethal tick-borne disease in the western hemisphere. Amblyomma sculptum is the main vector of R. rickettsii in southeastern Brazil. Capybaras act as primary hosts for this tick species, and as amplifying hosts for R. rickettsii, creating new...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Ramírez-Hernández A,Uchoa F,Serpa MCA,Binder LC,Souza CE,Labruna MB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 705 rodents from Myodes, Microtus, and Apodemus genera, 396 adult questing Ixodes persulcatus, and 115 Ixodes larvae and nymphs taken from rodents (and then molted under laboratory conditions to nymphs and adults) were collected in 2013-2018 in Omsk province, Russian Siberia, and examined for the presence o...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Rar V,Yakimenko V,Tikunov A,Makenov M,Epikhina T,Tancev A,Tikunova N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine anaplasmosis is a globally economically important tick-borne disease caused by the obligate intraerythrocytic rickettsia, Anaplasma marginale. A live Anaplasma centrale blood-based vaccine is available, but it does not protect against all A. marginale field strains and may also transmit other blood-borne pathog...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Hove P,Brayton KA,Liebenberg J,Pretorius A,Oosthuizen MC,Noh SM,Collins NE

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kyasanur Forest disease virus (KFDV) and Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV) are enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses of clinical importance with complex enzootic life cycles involving hematophagous ticks which feed on small and large mammals. Humans and monkeys are dead-end hosts for these viruses. Recent tre...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： N S,Hewson R,Afrough B,Bewley K,Arunkumar G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement is a key first line innate host defense system in the blood of vertebrates. Upon activation, this powerful defense mechanism can elicit inflammatory responses, lyse non-self-cells, or mark them for opsonophagocytic removal. Blood-feeding arthropods thus require the ability to block host complement activatio...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Frye AM,Hart TM,Tufts DM,Ram S,Diuk-Wasser MA,Kraiczy P,Blom AM,Lin YP

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kemerovo virus (KEMV) is a member of the Great Island virus genetic group, belonging to the tick-borne arboviruses of the genus Orbivirus within the family Reoviridae. Nine strains of KEMV, which were isolated from various locations in Russia, were sequenced by high-throughput sequencing to study their intraspecific d...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Safonova MV,Gmyl AP,Lukashev AN,Speranskaya AS,Neverov AD,Fedonin GG,Pimkina EV,Matsvay AD,Khafizov KF,Karganova GG,Kozlovskaya LI,Valdokhina AV,Bulanenko VP,Dedkov VG

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current work evaluated road-killed Pampas foxes (Lycalopex gymnocercus) and their ticks for the presence of vector-borne agents in the ecoregion Esteros del Iberá in northeastern Argentina. Spleen, lung and blood samples and Amblyomma tigrinum adult ticks collected from the foxes were tested by polymerase chain re...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Eberhardt AT,Fernandez C,Fargnoli L,Beldomenico PM,Monje LD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is an important tick-borne disease of equids, caused by Theileria equi and Babesia caballi. It is endemic in most parts of the world, including Israel, and has clinical and economic consequences. This study was set to evaluate the presence of EP parasites in domestic donkeys and in wild equid...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Tirosh-Levy S,Gottlieb Y,Arieli O,Mazuz ML,King R,Horowitz I,Steinman A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidatus Rickettsia mendelii is a novel rickettsial species recently identified in Ixodes ricinus. In this study, Ixodes brunneus collected from wild birds (n = 77 ticks) or vegetation (n = 4 ticks) in southeastern Virginia were surveyed for rickettsial agents. Candidatus Rickettsia mendelii was confirmed in I. brun...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Cumbie AN,Walters EL,Gaff HD,Hynes WL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne diseases (TBD) occur in many temperate countries and are economically important in most tropical and subtropical areas, affecting dairy and beef cattle, as well as small ruminants. Four major tick-borne diseases have been detected in eastern and southern Africa: East Coast fever (ECF) caused by Theileria pa...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Boucher F,Moutroifi Y,Peba B,Ali M,Moindjie Y,Ruget AS,Abdouroihamane S,Madi Kassim A,Soulé M,Charafouddine O,Cêtre-Sossah C,Cardinale E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:North Asian tick-typhus (NATT), also known as Siberian tick typhus, is the main tick-borne rickettsiosis in Siberia, Russia. Recently, a fatal infection in a four-year-old girl with typical tick-borne rickettsiosis symptoms (fever, rash, eschar at the site of the tick bite, myalgia) and meningeal syndrome was register...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Rudakov N,Samoylenko I,Shtrek S,Igolkina Y,Rar V,Zhirakovskaia E,Tkachev S,Kostrykina T,Blokhina I,Lentz P,Tikunova N

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed to know epidemiological aspects of Borrelia spp. in a protected urban area of Buenos Aires city, Argentina, where thousands of people visit this area for recreational purposes. Ticks were collected from vegetation, birds and dogs. Three hundred and forty birds belonging to 43 species, 41 genera, 1...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Cicuttin GL,De Salvo MN,Venzal JM,Nava S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ixodes scapularis is responsible for the transmission of a variety of pathogens in North America, including Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti. Songbirds have previously been described as agents of tick dispersal, and a combination of empirical data and modeling efforts h...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Tonelli BA,Dearborn DC

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theileria parva is a tick-transmitted protozoan parasite that causes a disease called East Coast fever (ECF) in cattle. This important tick borne-disease (TBD) causes significant economic losses in cattle in many sub-Saharan countries, including Tanzania. Cattle immunization using Muguga cocktail has been recommended ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Kerario II,Chenyambuga SW,Mwega ED,Rukambile E,Simulundu E,Simuunza MC

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock and their ectoparasites are involved in the epidemiology of several zoonotic diseases. Studies regarding the molecular detection of infectious agents in ticks from Northwestern Algeria are scarce. Thus, the presence of spotted fever group Rickettsia spp., Anaplasmataceae microorganisms and Coxiella burnetii ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Abdelkadir K,Palomar AM,Portillo A,Oteo JA,Ait-Oudhia K,Khelef D

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water buffalo industry is a vital part of the Philippine livestock economy and is an essential contributor to the developing local dairy industry. Although relatively less susceptible to diseases, water buffaloes can still be infected and can act as reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens (TBPs). However, limited infor...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Galon EMS,Adjou Moumouni PF,Ybañez RHD,Ringo AE,Efstratiou A,Lee SH,Liu M,Guo H,Gao Y,Li J,Salces CB,Maurillo BCA,Boldbaatar D,Ybañez AP,Xuan X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to eliminate Rhipicephalus microplus from Uruguay have been unsuccessful, and, currently, the country is divided into two areas: a tick-free area and a tick-infested area. In the tick-infested area, different farms face different situations. Some farms are in regions where, due to environmental conditions or ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Miraballes C,Riet-Correa F,Saporiti T,Lara S,Parodi P,Sanchez J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European polecat, Mustela putorius, occurs almost throughout Europe. However, there is a lack of data on the ectoparasite fauna and the potential role in the circulation of tick-borne pathogens (TBP) of this mustelid species. The aim of this study was to investigate whether M. putorius contributes to the maintenan...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Król N,Obiegala A,Kretschmar FM,Hamel D,Pfeffer M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the first tick-borne phleboviruses associated with severe disease in humans stimulated studies searching for further previously unknown tick-associated viruses. Novel phleboviruses have subsequently been identified in ticks from the USA, Japan and China and recently also from Europe. Here, we investig...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Ohlendorf V,Marklewitz M,Kopp A,Yordanov S,Drosten C,Junglen S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 50 years DEET (N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide) has been considered the gold standard of repellents. It is applied to the skin or clothing to deter mosquitoes and other blood-sucking invertebrate pests from approaching and/or settling, and ultimately it provides temporary protection from bites. Despite rampant g...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Koloski CW,LeMoine CMR,Klonowski AR,Smith CM,Cassone BJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervid babesiosis, caused by the protozoan hemoparasite Babesia odocoilei and transmitted by the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis, is an emerging disease of Canadian cervids. This pathogen has not yet been described in humans. Data are lacking on the role of migratory birds in the adventitious spread of Ba. odocoile...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Milnes EL,Thornton G,Léveillé AN,Delnatte P,Barta JR,Smith DA,Nemeth N

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and the collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla) are widespread in Brazil and found in all Brazilian biomes. These hosts frequently use domestic animal environments such as pastures, where tick and related microorganism interchange may occur between hosts. Reports of tick ...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Szabó MPJ,Pascoal JO,Martins MM,Ramos VDN,Osava CF,Santos ALQ,Yokosawa J,Rezende LM,Tolesano-Pascoli GV,Torga K,de Castro MB,Suzin A,Barbieri ARM,Werther K,Silva JMM,Labruna MB

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) has been emerging and has caused many human cases in China, Japan and Korea. Some studies speculated that SFTSV was transmitted with bird migration among these countries. Notably, SFTS cases have been identified in a Chinese island named Dachen which is situate...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Shen W,Lin H,Weng J,Hu Y,Liu Y,Li J,Xu F,Guan C,Sun J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanism of pathogen transmission is essential for the development of strategies to reduce arthropod-borne diseases. The pharmaco- and immunomodulatory properties of insect and acarine saliva play an essential role in the efficiency of pathogen transmission. The skin as the site where arthropod sali...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Boeuf A,Schnell G,Bernard Q,Kern A,Westermann B,Ehret-Sabatier L,Grillon A,Schramm F,Jaulhac B,Boulanger N

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymol is a monoterpene present in plants of the families Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae and Apiaceae. Despite its proven acaricidal activity, little is known about the mechanism of action of thymol in ticks. Thus, the aim of this study was to perform a morpho-histochemical analysis of the synganglion and salivary glands of p...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Matos RS,Daemon E,de Oliveira Monteiro CM,Sampieri BR,Marchesini PBC,Delmonte C,Camargo-Mathias MI

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workers at veterinary clinics are exposed to zoonotic pathogens, which, though infrequently, can lead to serious consequences. The aim of the present study was to estimate the seroprevalence for rickettsial pathogens in veterinary clinic personnel in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Voluntary participants included 10...

journal_title：Ticks and tick-borne diseases

authors： Escárcega-Ávila AM,de la Mora-Covarrubias A,Quezada-Casasola A,Jiménez-Vega F

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00