Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Tick‐borne diseases affecting domestic animals and humans have increased globally in recent years. Pakistan, in particular, faces a significant economic threat from ticks, where two specific species, Rhipicephalus microplus and Hyalomma anatolicum, act as vectors for various pathogens such as piroplasma, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia that pose a
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Distribution of tick-borne diseases in China [PDF]
, 2013 As an important contributor to vector-borne diseases in China, in recent years, tick-borne diseases have attracted much attention because of their increasing incidence and consequent significant harm to livestock and human health.
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2004 White-tailed deer are susceptible to heartwater (Ehrlichia [Cowdria] ruminantium infection) and are likely to suffer high mortality if the disease spreads to the United States.
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Ehrlichia ewingii Infection in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) [PDF]
, 2002 Two closely related zoonotic ehrlichiae, Ehrlichia chaffeensis and E. ewingii, are transmitted by Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick. Because white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are critical hosts for all mobile stages of A.
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Antibody-Mediated Elimination of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterial PathogenEhrlichia chaffeensisduring Active Infection [PDF]
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Prevalence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii in Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis Collected From Southeastern Virginia, 2010-2011 [PDF]
, 2014 Amblyomma americanum is the most commonly-encountered tick species in southeastern Virginia, representing approximately 95% of the human-biting tick population in this area.
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Absence of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor expression but presence of IL-1beta, IL-8, and IL-10 expression in human monocytes exposed to viable or killed Ehrlichia chaffeensis [PDF]
, 1996 Eunjoo H. Lee, Yasuko Rikihisa
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Site-Specific Geographic Association Between Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) Infestations and Ehrlichia chaffeensis-Reactive (Rickettsiales: Ehrlichieae) Antibodies in White-Tailed Deer [PDF]
, 1996 J. Mitchell Lockhart +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2017 Survival of Ehrlichia chaffeensis depends on obligatory intracellular infection. One of the barriers to E. chaffeensis research progress has been the inability, using conventional techniques, to generate knock-out mutants for genes essential for ...
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016 Human ehrlichiosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii. Cases of ehrlichiosis are reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through two national surveillance systems: Nationally Notifiable ...
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