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Association between lone star tick bites and increased alpha-gal sensitization: evidence from a prospective cohort of outdoor workers

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Alpha-gal is an oligosaccharide implicated in delayed anaphylaxis following red meat consumption. Exposure to tick bites has been correlated with development of an allergic response to alpha-gal.
Cedar L. Mitchell, Feng-Chang Lin, Meagan Vaughn, Charles S. Apperson, Steven R. Meshnick, Scott P. Commins   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha‐Gal, epitope responsible for allergy to red meat, in the Mediterranean tick Hyalomma lusitanicum

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 366-371, September 2024.
The presence of α‐Gal epitope ( was confirmed by the presence of reactive proteins of >250 kDa in samples from engorged and unfed H. lusitanicum ticks. The highest concentrations of α‐Gal were detected in salivary glands. Neither sex nor diet influenced the concentration of α‐Gal, which seems to indicate its endogenous production and its possible ...
Ángela Valcárcel, Andrea Briones Montero, Marta Rodero, Juan González‐Fernández, A. Sonia Olmeda, Félix Valcárcel, Carmen Cuéllar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cascading effects of mammal host community composition on tick vector occurrence at the urban human–wildlife interface

Ecosphere, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2024.
Abstract Habitat fragmentation and host community composition are implicated as key drivers of changing tick populations and tick‐borne pathogen dynamics, altering infection risk through coupled socioecological pathways that mediate interactions between tick vectors, vertebrate hosts, and humans.
Jonathan Bastard, Nichar Gregory, Pilar Fernandez, Michaela Mincone, Olivia Card, Meredith C. VanAcker, Sara Kross, Maria A. Diuk‐Wasser   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to the Letter to the Editor by Rob Armstrong

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
In a recent Letter to the Editor, Armstrong raises concern that the design of the study reported by Six et al. was not consistent with the product label for treatment of Amblyomma americanum, since fluralaner was not re-administered 56 days after the ...
Robert H. Six, David R. Young, Melanie R. Myers, Sean P. Mahabir   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha-Gal Syndrome after Ixodes scapularis Tick Bite and Statewide Surveillance, Maine, USA, 2014–2023

Emerging Infectious Diseases
In the United States, alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is primarily associated with lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) bites. We describe AGS onset after an Ixodes scapularis tick bite and present AGS surveillance in Maine, 2014–2023.
Eleanor F. Saunders, Haris Sohail, Devin J. Myles, Dawn Charnetzky, Bryan N. Ayres, William L. Nicholson, Scott P. Commins, Johanna S. Salzer   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blood Meal Analysis to Identify Reservoir Hosts for Amblyomma americanum Ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
Efforts to identify wildlife reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens are frequently limited by poor understanding of tick–host interactions and potentially transient infectivity of hosts under natural conditions.
Brian F. Allan, Lisa S. Goessling, Gregory A. Storch, Robert E. Thach   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanistic movement models to predict geographic range expansions of ticks and tick-borne pathogens: Case studies with Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum in eastern North America.

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2023
Olivia Tardy, E. Acheson, C. Bouchard, E. Chamberland, André Fortin, N. Ogden, P. Leighton   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Detection of Rickettsiae, Borreliae, and Ehrlichiae in Ticks Collected from Walker County, Texas, 2017–2018

Insects, 2019
Cases of tick-borne diseases, including spotted fever rickettsioses, borreliosis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, in the United States and territories have more than doubled from 2004 to 2016 and account for 77% of all vector-borne disease ...
Nicole L. Mendell, Erin S. Reynolds, Lucas S. Blanton, Meghan E. Hermance, Andres F. Londoño, Charles E. Hart, Bethany R. Quade, Allen T. Esterly, C’Brionne B. Hendrix, Pete D. Teel, Donald H. Bouyer, Saravanan Thangamani   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha-Gal Allergy: a new threat to Appalachia

Marshall Journal of Medicine, 2021
Alpha-gal allergy, or mammalian meat allergy, is described as the development of IgE antibodies to the oligosaccharide galactose-a-1,3-galactose following a bite from the tick species Amblyomma americanum (Lone Star tick) or Dermacentor variabillis (Wood
Makala Murphy, Madison Griffis, Adam M. Franks, Rebeka Franks, Colin M. Franks, Gary Petty   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A secreted calreticulin protein in ixodid tick (Amblyomma americanum) saliva

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1995
A complementary DNA clone from salivary glands of feeding female Amblyomma americanum ticks has been characterized as encoding calreticulin. Calreticulin, a major endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium-binding protein, appears to be secreted in Amblyomma and Dermacentor saliva. Evidence is accummulating that calreticulin performs roles unrelated to calcium
Acarology Laboratory, Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. ( host institution ), Jaworski, Deborah C., Simmen, Frank A., Lamoreaux, William, Coons, Lewis B., Muller, Mark T., Needham, Glen R.   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources