First records of Dermacentor albipictus larvae collected by flagging in Yukon, Canada [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background The winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) has garnered significant attention throughout North America for its impact on wildlife health, and especially for moose (Alces alces), where high tick burdens may result in host hair loss, anemia, and ...
Emily S. Chenery +3 more
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Apparent fatal winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) infestation in captive reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeThe winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus (Ixodidae), commonly infests a wide variety of wild and domestic ungulates throughout North America. This one-host-tick infests animals from October to April, with moose (Alces alces) particularly affected. Animals
Meriam N. Saleh +5 more
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Equine attachment site preferences and seasonality of common North American ticks: Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor albipictus, and Ixodes scapularis [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Ticks are common on horses, but recent publications characterizing equine tick infestations in North America are lacking. Methods To further understand attachment site preferences of common ticks of horses, and to document the seasonality of ...
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Evaluation of Winter Ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) Collected from North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) in an Area of Chronic Wasting Disease Endemicity for Evidence of PrP CWD Amplification Using Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion Assay [PDF]
mSphere, 2021 This study reports the first finding of detectable levels of prions linked to chronic wasting disease in a tick collected from a clinically infected elk.
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Prevalence of Winter Ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) in Hunter-Harvested Wild Elk (Cervus canadensis) from Pennsylvania, USA (2017–2018) [PDF]
Veterinary Sciences, 2020 Winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) are an aggressive one-host tick that infest a wide-diversity of ungulates. Infestations can result in anemia, alopecia, emaciation, and death. Most notably, the winter tick has caused negative impacts to moose (Alces
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Tick development on sexually-active bull moose is more advanced compared to that of cow moose in the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019 We performed a complete survey of ticks on 100 cm2 skin samples collected from 30 moose (Alces alces) harvested in 2017 in central and northern Maine, U.S.A.
Jay A. Yoder +7 more
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Scent detection dogs detect a species of hard tick, Dermacentor albipictus, with comparable accuracy and efficiency to traditional tick drag surveys [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Accurate surveillance data are critical for addressing tick and tick-borne pathogen risk to human and animal health. Current surveillance methods for detecting invading or expanding tick species are limited in their ability to scale ...
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Evidence for transmission of the zoonotic apicomplexan parasite Babesia duncani by the tick Dermacentor albipictus. [PDF]
Int J Parasitol, 2019 Babesiosis is a potentially fatal tick-borne zoonotic disease caused by a species complex of blood parasites that can infect a variety of vertebrates, particularly dogs, cattle, and humans. In the United States, human babesiosis is caused by two distinct parasites, Babesia microti and Babesia duncani. The enzootic cycle of B.
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An insight into the ovary and midgut transcriptome of Dermacentor nitens tick [PDF]
Ticks and Tick-Borne DiseasesThe tropical horse tick, Dermacentor nitens, is a one-host hard tick widely distributed across tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, where it primarily parasitizes horses and occasionally cattle and other livestock.
Stephen Lu +8 more
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Analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of Dermacentor albipictus suggests a species complex
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2022 Dermacentor albipictus is a one-host tick broadly distributed across North America. There are two easily recognizable color variants - ornate and inornate/brown - that have been taxonomically synonymized. Based on mt-cox1 and mt-16S data, there is also evidence for two genetic lineages which do not match the color variants.
Jeba R J Jesudoss Chelladurai
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