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The Common Shrew (Sorex araneus): A neglected host of tick-borne infections? [PDF]

, 2011
Although the importance of rodents as reservoirs for a number of tick-borne infections is well established, comparatively little is known about the potential role of shrews, despite them occupying similar habitats.
Birtles, RJ, Bown, K, Heyder-Bruckner, D, Lambin, X, Ogden, NH, Telford, G   +5 more
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Citizen science project on urban canids provides different results from camera traps but generates interest and revenue

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As urbanization increases, wildlife increasingly encounters people. Coyotes Canis latrans and red foxes Vulpes vulpes are two canid species that have readily adapted to urban environments. Citizen science has emerged as a low‐cost method of collecting data on urban‐adapted species that can benefit management agencies but may provide different results ...
Neville F. Taraporevala, Jon P. Beckmann, Julie K. Young   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryo-Electron Tomography Elucidates the Molecular Architecture of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete [PDF]

, 2009
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) was used to examine the native cellular organization of Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete. T. pallidum cells appeared to form flat waves, did not contain an outer coat and, except for bulges over the basal bodies ...
Cox, David L., Desrosiers, Daniel C., Dunham-Ems, Star, Gebhardt, Linda L., Hsieh, Chyong-Ere, Izard, Jacques, Limberger, Ronald J., Marko, Michael, Radolf, Justin D., Renken, Christian, Vake, Carson La   +10 more
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Oral Doxycycline Was a Safe and Feasible Treatment in Young Children With Neuroborreliosis

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim There is limited evidence on the use of oral doxycycline in young children. We evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of doxycycline in children under 9 years with neuroborreliosis. Methods This retrospective study included all children under 9 years of age treated for neuroborreliosis in the Capital Region of Denmark from 2019 to ...
Joakim Bloch, Lisbeth Schmidt, Nadja Vissing, Jonathan Peter Glenthøj, Birgitte Smith, Alfred Peter Born, Anja Poulsen, Anne‐Mette Lebech, Ulrikka Nygaard   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mini erythema migrans - A sign of early Lyme borreliosis [PDF]

, 2006
Background: An erythema migrans (EM) remaining smaller than 5 cm in diameter, called mini EM by us, has not been addressed in detail. Objective: To study the significance of the mini EM as a sign of Lyme borreliosis. Methods: Patients with suspected mini
Weber, K., Wilske, B.
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Discospondylitis as a consequence of jugular vein septic thrombophlebitis in a Standardbred gelding

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary This report describes the identification of C7‐T1 discospondylitis on myelography and confirmed on postmortem computed tomography and necropsy in a 4‐year‐old Standardbred gelding as the consequence of jugular vein catheterisation and secondary septic thrombophlebitis. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from both sites.
F. Payette, J. A. Demchur, K. W. Bills, D. G. Levine, A. L. Johnson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera : Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari : Ixodidae) from Hungary [PDF]

, 2006
Fleas (95 Pulex irritans, 50 Ctenocephalides felis, 45 Ctenocephalides canis) and ixodid ticks (223 Ixodes ricinus, 231 Dermacentor reticulatus, 204 Haemaphysalis concinna) were collected in Hungary and tested, in assays based on PCR, for Bartonella ...
Márialigeti, Károly, Sréter, Tamás, Sréter-Lancz, Z., Széll, Z., Tornyai, K.   +4 more
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Molecular detection of pathogens in an equine fever diagnostic panel: 2019–2023

Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Background A common diagnostic approach for febrile horses is to test for a panel of potential pathogens. Panels are curated by expert opinion and vary between diagnostic laboratories. Objectives To report the results of a newly developed equine fever diagnostic panel (EFDP) between 2019 and 2023 and evaluate the frequency of positive results.
Toby L. Pinn‐Woodcock, Melissa S. Aprea, Manigandan Lejeune, Joy E. Tomlinson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

GenColors: Annotation and comparative genomics made easy [PDF]

, 2009
GenColors is a web-based software/database system initially aimed at an improved and accelerated annotation of prokaryotic genomes making extensive use of genome comparison (Romualdi et al., _Bioinformatics_ 2005; Romualdi et al., _Methods Mol.
Alessandro Romualdi, Gernot Gloeckner, Juergen Suehnel, Marius Felder, Matthias Platzer   +4 more
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Permission to bite: White‐footed mice show no increased grooming response to tick infestation

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
White‐footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) are one of the most frequently studied hosts of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis); however, interactions between white‐footed mice and ticks are not easily observed. This study aimed to quantify activity patterns in white‐footed mice and to assess their behavioral responses to parasitism by blacklegged ticks ...
J. E. Brown, P. Chuard, E. T. Machtinger
wiley   +1 more source