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Epidemiology of ticks submitted from human hosts in Alberta, Canada (2000–2019)

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2022
The geographic range and occurrence of tick species is dynamic. This has important public health implications due to important tick species that can transmit pathogens.
Jamil N. Kanji, Abraam Isaac, Daniel Gregson, Monika Mierzejewski, Danny Shpeley, Pauline Tomlin, Michael Groeschel, L. Robbin Lindsay, Lisa Lachance, Kinga Kowalewska-Grochowska   +9 more
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Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease [PDF]

, 2016
Ticks transmit more pathogens to humans and animals than any other arthropod. We describe the 2.1 Gbp nuclear genome of the tick, Ixodes scapularis (Say), which vectors pathogens that cause Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, babesiosis and ...
Gulia-Nuss, Monika, Meyer, Jason M, Nuss, Andrew B, Ixodes scapularis genome sequencing consortium   +3 more
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Population and demographic structure of Ixodes scapularis Say in the eastern United States. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
INTRODUCTION:The most significant vector of tick-borne pathogens in the United States is Ixodes scapularis Say (the blacklegged tick). Previous studies have identified significant genetic, behavioral and morphological differences between northern vs ...
Joyce M Sakamoto, Jerome Goddard, Jason L Rasgon   +2 more
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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 ...
Tornyai, K., Zsuzsa Sréter-Lancz, Sréter, Tamás, Zoltán Széll, Széll, Z., Márialigeti, Károly, Károly Márialigeti, Krisztián Tornyai, Tamás Sréter, Sréter-Lancz, Z.   +9 more
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Double anus in an Ixodes scapularis nymph, a medically important tick vector

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background Ixodes scapularis ticks are medically important arthropod vectors that transmit several pathogens to humans. The observations of morphological abnormalities, including nanism, missing leg, extra leg, and gynandromorphism, have been reported in
Vikas Taank, Frank A. Lattanzio, Hameeda Sultana, Girish Neelakanta   +3 more
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Ixodes scapularis 5'-COI DNA barcode sequences [PDF]

, 2019
5'-COI DNA barcode multiple sequence alignment for deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) used in Phillips et al ...
Jarrett Phillips (5231438)
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Blacklegged Tick or Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae)

EDIS, 2003
In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say affects the greatest number of people for three principal reasons: their geographic distribution coincides in the northeastern United States with the greatest concentration of humans ...
Michael R. Patnaude, Thomas N. Mather
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Ixodes scapularis Is the Most Susceptible of the Three Canonical Human-Biting Tick Species of North America to Repellent and Acaricidal Effects of the Natural Sesquiterpene, (+)-Nootkatone

Insects, 2023
Ticks are vectors of many human and animal zoonotic disease-causing agents causing significant global health and economic strain. Repellents and acaricides are integral to the human capacity for personal protection from tick bites.
Eric L. Siegel, Guang Xu, Andrew Y. Li, Patrick Pearson, Sebastián D’hers, Noel Elman, Thomas N. Mather, Stephen M. Rich   +7 more
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Efficacy of a proprietary formulation of fipronil/(S)-methoprene/cyphenothrin against Ixodes scapularis tick infestations on dogs

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Efficacy of FRONTLINE® TRITAK® For Dogs (fipronil/(S)-methoprene/cyphenothrin, Merial, Inc., Duluth, GA) against Ixodes scapularis was evaluated in two separate, but concurrent laboratory studies.
Doug Carithers, William Russell Everett, Sheila J. Gross, Ruchika Solanki   +3 more
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Genes of Ixodes scapularis, deer tick reconstructed with EvidentialGene [PDF]

, 2015
The evigene_tick_ixoscap2014 archive package contains a complete, reconstructed gene set of Ixodes scapularis, deer tick, produced with EvidentialGene methods.
Gilbert, Don
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