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Isolation and Propagation of Laboratory Strains and a Novel Flea-Derived Field Strain of Wolbachia in Tick Cell Lines

Microorganisms, 2020
Wolbachia are intracellular endosymbionts of several invertebrate taxa, including insects and nematodes. Although Wolbachia DNA has been detected in ticks, its presence is generally associated with parasitism by insects.
Jing Jing Khoo, Timothy J. Kurtti, Nurul Aini Husin, Alexandra Beliavskaia, Fang Shiang Lim, Mulya Mustika Sari Zulkifli, Alaa M. Al-Khafaji, Catherine Hartley, Alistair C. Darby, Grant L. Hughes, Sazaly AbuBakar, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Lesley Bell-Sakyi   +12 more
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Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species in host-seeking Ixodes species ticks in the United States

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States and is transmitted by Ixodes scapularis in the eastern US and I. pacificus in the west. The causative agents, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (Bbss) and B.
Lynn M. Osikowicz, Maria R. Rizzo, Andrias Hojgaard, Sarah E. Maes, Rebecca J. Eisen   +4 more
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Exploring the sialome of the tick Ixodes scapularis

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2002
SUMMARY To attempt description of the set of mRNA and protein (sialome) expressed in the salivary glands of the tick Ixodes scapularis, we randomly sequenced 735 clones of a full-length salivary gland cDNA library of this arthropod and performed Edman degradation of protein bands from salivary gland homogenates (SGH) and saliva separated
Valenzuela, Jesus G., Francischetti, Ivo M. B., Pham, Van My, Garfield, Mark K., Mather, Thomas N., Ribeiro, José M. C.   +5 more
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Optimizing tick artificial membrane feeding for Ixodes scapularis

Scientific Reports, 2023
AbstractArtificial membrane feeding (AMF) is a powerful and versatile technique with a wide range of applications in the study of disease vectors species. Since its first description, AMF has been under constant optimization and standardization for different tick species and life stages.
Melina Garcia Guizzo, Claudio Meneses, Pedro Amado Cecilio, Patricia Hessab Alvarenga, Daniel Sonenshine, Jose M. Ribeiro   +5 more
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Projecting the Potential Distribution Areas of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Driven by Climate Change

Biology, 2022
Ixodes scapularis is a vector of tick-borne diseases. Climate change is frequently invoked as an important cause of geographic expansions of tick-borne diseases.
Lu Zhang, Delong Ma, Chao Li, Ruobing Zhou, Jun Wang, Qiyong Liu   +5 more
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Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis, Respond to Sex‐Attractant Semiochemicals of Male Deer Mice, Peromyscus maniculatus

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Ticks are obligate ectoparasites that blood‐feed on a variety of vertebrate hosts including rodents such as deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii. Female blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis—but not female lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum, or American dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis—were attracted to urine‐ and feces‐soiled bedding of male ...
Claire E. Gooding, Sauleha Yaqub, Layla Gould, Regine Gries, Gerhard Gries   +4 more
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Breaking the ice: multiple origins of ice‐binding/antifreeze proteins

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Ice‐binding proteins (IBPs) evolved independently in many organisms during Cenozoic cooling and glaciation. In flounders, α‐helical IBPs evolved from an antiviral protein, while similar IBPs arose independently from different progenitors in three other fish lineages.
Laurie A. Graham, Peter L. Davies
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Anomalous morphologies in Ixodes scapularis feeding on human hosts

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2022
Cases of anomalous morphologies in the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, have been reported in both field-collected and human-biting specimen in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, complicating the identification of this medically important tick species. We herein describe four cases of morphological anomalies in I.
Noelle, Khalil, Katherine D, Dugas, Jamie L, Cantoni, Kirby C, Stafford, Goudarz, Molaei   +4 more
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Molecular-based laboratory testing confer accuracy over microscopical testing for tick identification

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
As per published literature, the Ixodes pacificus tick is the primary Lyme disease vector in British Columbia (BC), while the Ixodes scapularis tick species is the dominant vector on the East Coast of Canada, with no I.
Isaac Singh, Min-Kuang Lee, Emily Kon, Navdeep Chahil, Martin Cheung, Catherine Hogan, Muhammad Morshed   +6 more
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Urbanicity and Lyme Disease: 20 Year Trends in Incidence and Case Burden in the United States

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Incidence of Lyme disease (LD) has increased over the last few decades in the United States (US). We examined trends in LD incidence and case burden in high‐incidence jurisdictions in the US from 2000 to 2021 by urbanicity. County‐level counts of confirmed LD cases from 2000 to 2021 were obtained from national surveillance data.
Madiha Shafquat, L. Hannah Gould, Patrick H. Kelly, Stephanie A. Duench, James H. Stark   +4 more
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