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Objective. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of endoparasites and ectoparasites in ex situ snakes at the Barranquilla Zoo. Materials and Methods. Stool samples and ectoparasites of 2 colubrids (Leptophis ahaetulla and Spilotes pullatus)
Nazly Duran P +3 more
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Experimental infection by Borrelia anserina strain PL in Gallus gallus
Avian borreliosis is a tick-borne acute septicemic disease that affects a variety of avian species and is caused by the bacterium Borrelia anserina. The present study aimed to establish the infection dynamics of B.
Marcio Barizon Cepeda +3 more
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Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that have negative economic impacts and can spread a variety of diseases through their bites. There are few reports on soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) and tick-borne pathogens in southern Xinjiang, China.
Li Siang +8 more
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The Persian tick Argas persicus (Ixodida: Argasidae) in Kalmykia (Russia)
The epidemiological significance of ticks of the genus Argas has been known since 1897, as this genus includes at least 61 species of ticks parasitizing birds and bats and is capable of hosting and transmitting several bacterial diseases such as ...
Aleksandra Yatsuk +5 more
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Prevalence and Identification of Livestock Tick by Sex Ratio and Host in Tehran Province. [PDF]
This study identified tick species infesting livestock and poultry in Tehran Province, revealing a female‐biased sex ratio and sheep as the most infested hosts. Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato was the dominant species. These findings underscore the need for host‐targeted tick control to mitigate disease transmission and economic losses.
Abbasi E.
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Herein, historical collection of ticks (Acari: Argasidae), which were collected by E. Pavlovsky of parasitological expeditions to Central Asia (1934-1955), are reported.
Aleksei Solovev +4 more
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Synopsis of the ticks of Algeria with new hosts and localities records
Background Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods with a world-wide distribution that are extremely important not only in terms of human and animal health but also economically. In Algeria, information on tick species is scarce. Methods A systematic
Noureddine Mechouk +3 more
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Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Robbins, Richard G., Apanaskevich, Dmitry A., Petney, Trevor N., Estrada-Peña, Agustín, Horak, Ivan G., Shao, Renfu & Barker, Stephen C., 2010, The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2528 on pages 3-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.
Guglielmone, Alberto A. +7 more
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Background Increasing molecular evidence supports that bats and/or their ectoparasites may harbor vector-borne bacteria, such as bartonellae and borreliae. However, the simultaneous occurrence of rickettsiae in bats and bat ticks has been poorly studied.
Shuo Zhao +7 more
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The mitochondrial genomes of Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae) and Argas africolumbae (Ixodoidae: Argasidae): estimation of divergence dates for the major tick lineages and reconstruction of ancestral blood-feeding characters. [PDF]
Ixodida are composed of hard (Ixodidae), soft (Argasidae) and the monotypic Nuttalliellidae (Nuttalliella namaqua) tick families. Nuclear 18S rRNA analysis suggested that N.
Ben J Mans +4 more
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