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Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America

ZooKeys, 2018
This catalogue includes all valid family-group (8 subfamilies, 52 tribes, 14 subtribes), genus-group (349 genera, 86 subgenera), and species-group names (2825 species, 215 subspecies) of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) known to occur in ...
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr.   +6 more
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Tick burden in Bos taurus cattle and its relationship with heat stress in three agroecological zones in the tropics of Colombia

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Ticks have a negative effect on dairy and beef cattle production systems around the world, with the concomitant risk they represent for the transmission of some important infectious diseases.
Juan Felipe Rocha, Rodrigo Martínez, Nicolas López-Villalobos, Steve Todd Morris   +3 more
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Collateral benefits of restricted insecticide application for control of African trypanosomiasis on Theileria parva in cattle: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Tick and tsetse-borne diseases (TTBDs) constrain livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Of this community of endemic diseases, East coast fever (T.parva) is the most important tick-borne disease (TBD) accounting for 70% of
Picozzi, Kim, Waiswa, Charles, Kabasa, John David, Jan Hatendorf, Dennis Muhanguzi, Susan Welburn, Charles Waiswa, John Kabasa, Thrusfield, Michael, Welburn, Susan Christina, Muhanguzi, Dennis, Michael Thrusfield, Hatendorf, Jan, Kim Picozzi   +13 more
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Proteomics as a Potential Tool for Identifying Biomarkers for Host Resistance to Cattle Tick

Proceedings, 2020
The cattle tick, Rhiphicephalus microplus, and the diseases it transmits lead to massive economic losses to cattle industries in tropical and subtropical countries. The emergence of widespread resistance to acaricide drugs and the absence of an effective
Ali Raza, Peter James, Ala Tabor
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Influence of the Biotope on the Tick Infestation of Cattle and on the Tick-Borne Pathogen Repertoire of Cattle Ticks in Ethiopia

PLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND The majority of vector-borne infections occur in the tropics, including Africa, but molecular eco-epidemiological studies are seldom reported from these regions. In particular, most previously published data on ticks in Ethiopia focus on species distribution, and only a few molecular studies on the occurrence of tick-borne pathogens or on ...
Hornok, Sándor, Abichu, Getachew, Meli, Marina L, Tánczos, Balázs, Sulyok, Kinga M, Gyuranecz, Miklós, Gönczi, Enikő, Farkas, Róbert, Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina   +8 more
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Hemoplasmas and ticks in cattle from Somalia

Acta Tropica, 2022
Hemotropic mycoplasmas (hemoplasmas) are small Gram-negative bacteria that parasitize red blood cells and can cause mild to severe anemia in a wide range of vertebrates, including ruminants. Cattle population in Somalia is around 3.9 million heads, with animals more concentrated around the river areas, mainly in the Juba River and Shabelle River ...
Larissa D.R. Ferrari, Ahmed A. Hassan-Kadle, Flávia C.M. Collere, Vanessa S. Coradi, Abdalla M. Ibrahim, Aamir M. Osman, Mohamed A. Shair, Marcos R. André, Thállitha S.W.J. Vieira, Rosangela Z. Machado, Rafael F.C. Vieira   +10 more
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Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus aquaporin as an effective vaccine antigen to protect against cattle tick infestations

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Vaccination as a control method against the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus has been practiced since the introduction of two products in the mid-1990s.
Felix D Guerrero, Renato Andreotti, Kylie G Bendele, Rodrigo C Cunha, Robert J Miller, Kathleen Yeater, Adalberto A Pérez de León   +6 more
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry for comprehensive indexing of East African ixodid tick species [PDF]

, 2016
Background: The tick population of Africa includes several important genera belonging to the family Ixodidae. Many of these ticks are vectors of protozoan and rickettsial pathogens including Theileria parva that causes East Coast fever, a debilitating ...
Olds, C., Pflüger, V., Stephen Mwaura, Julian Rothen, Cassandra Olds, Bishop, Richard P., Daubenberger, C.A., Richard P. Bishop, Olds, Cassandra L., Pflueger, V., Esther G. Kanduma, Githaka, Naftaly W., Daubenberger, C., Rothen, J., Valentin Pflüger, Githaka, N., KAnduma, E. G., Mwaura, S., Bishop, R. P., Naftaly Githaka, Claudia Daubenberger, Kanduma, Esther G.   +21 more
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Shoot transcriptome of the giant reed, Arundo donax

Data in Brief, 2015
The giant reed, Arundo donax, is a perennial grass species that has become an invasive plant in many countries. Expansive stands of A. donax have significant negative impacts on available water resources and efforts are underway to identify biological ...
Roberto A. Barrero, Felix D. Guerrero, Paula Moolhuijzen, John A. Goolsby, Jason Tidwell, Stanley E. Bellgard, Matthew I. Bellgard   +6 more
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Vaccination with Recombinant Subolesin Antigens Provides Cross-Tick Species Protection in Bos indicus and Crossbred Cattle in Uganda

Vaccines, 2020
Cattle tick infestations and transmitted pathogens affect animal health, production and welfare with an impact on cattle industry in tropical and subtropical countries.
Paul D. Kasaija, Marinela Contreras, Fredrick Kabi, Swidiq Mugerwa, José de la Fuente   +4 more
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