Amblyomma americanum as a Bridging Vector for Human Infection with Francisella tularensis
PLOS ONE, 2015 The γ-proteobacterium Francisella tularensis causes seasonal tick-transmitted tularemia outbreaks in natural rabbit hosts and incidental infections in humans in the south-central United States. Although Dermacentor variabilis is considered a primary vector for F. tularensis, Amblyomma americanum is the most abundant tick species in this endemic region.
Jessica Abbey Metcalf +2 more
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Multiple functions of Na/K-ATPase in dopamine-induced salivation of the Blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis [PDF]
, 2016 Citation: Kim, D., Urban, J., Boyle, D. L., & Park, Y. (2016). Multiple functions of Na/K-ATPase in dopamine-induced salivation of the Blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. Scientific Reports, 6, 13.
Boyle, Daniel L. +3 more
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Emerging Infectious DiseasesIn 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 +7 more
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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 +3 more
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Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (Acari: Ixodidae), the Cayenne tick: phylogeography and evidence for allopatric speciation [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Amblyomma cajennense F. is one of the best known and studied ticks in the New World because of its very wide distribution, its economical importance as pest of domestic ungulates, and its association with a variety of animal and human ...
Barros Battesti, Darcy M. +10 more
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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 +5 more
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Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Spirochete, in Ticks and Rodents in Northeast Arkansas [PDF]
, 1993 Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been reported from 36 of Arkansas\u27 75 counties. Ticks and wild rodents from nine northeast Arkansas counties were surveyed to determine the prevalence of Borrelia infection in potential
Hinck, Lawrence W., Simpson, Kim Kelly
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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 +11 more
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The characterization and manipulation of the bacterial microbiome of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: In North America, ticks are the most economically impactful vectors of human and animal pathogens. The Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae), transmits Rickettsia rickettsii and Anaplasma marginale to humans and ...
Cory A. Gall +4 more
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Cofactor Fingerprinting with STD NMR to Characterize Proteins of Unknown Function: Identification of a Rare cCMP Cofactor Preference [PDF]
, 2004 Proteomics efforts have created a need for better strategies to functionally categorize newly discovered proteins. To this end, we have employed saturation transfer difference NMR with pools of closely related cofactors, to determine cofactor preferences.
Sem, Daniel, Yao, Huili
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