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The role of juvenile Dermacentor reticulatus ticks as vectors of microorganisms and the problem of ‘meal contamination’

open access: yesExperimental & applied acarology, 2019
Juvenile Dermacentor reticulatus ticks inhabit nests and burrows of their rodent hosts and cannot be collected from vegetation. To detect vertical transmission of Babesia canis in D.
Dorota Dwużnik   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Natural Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in ticks from a forest area of Selenge province, Mongolia

open access: yesWestern Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2014
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a zoonotic agent of public health importance, infecting both humans and animals. An investigation of the presence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum as well as Anaplasma platys was conducted in a forest area of Selenge province ...
G Javkhlan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tick borne illness in Missouri [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Missouri is a hotbed for tick-borne illness given its abundance of rural geography and wildlife, especially deer. The two most frequently encountered ticks in Missouri are the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum and the American dog tick, Dermacentor ...
Roland, William E.
core  

Rickettsia helvetica in Dermacentor reticulatus Ticks

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
We report on the molecular evidence that Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in Croatia are infected with Rickettsia helvetica (10%) or Rickettsia slovaca (2%) or co-infected with both species (1%).
Marinko Dobec   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha-Gal Allergy: a new threat to Appalachia

open access: yesMarshall 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
doaj   +1 more source

A large-scale screening for the taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus, and the meadow tick, Dermacentor reticulatus, in southern Scandinavia, 2016

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2019
The taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus, has previously been limited to eastern Europe and northern Asia, but recently its range has expanded to Finland and northern Sweden.
L. Kjær   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Applying MALDI-TOF MS to resolve morphologic and genetic similarities between two Dermacentor tick species of public health importance

open access: yesScientific Reports
Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) have been historically identified by morphological methods which require highly specialized expertise and more recently by DNA-based molecular assays that involve high costs.
Maria F. B. M. Galletti   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

First report on the occurrence of Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor silvarum in China

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2012
Background Rickettsioses are among both the longest known and most recently recognized infectious diseases. Although new spotted fever group rickettsiae have been isolated in many parts of the world including China, Little is known about the epidemiology
Tian Zhan-Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gypsy moths and American dog ticks: Space partners [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
An experiment intended for the space shuttle and designed to investigate the effects of weightlessness and total darkness on gypsy moth eggs and engorged American dog ticks is described.
Goans, M. D.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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