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Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from an Ornithodoros sonrai tick from Senegal

open access: yesNew Microbes and New Infections, 2019
Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., strain OS09T (= CSURB624T = DSM 23169), is the type strain of Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Bartonella.
H. Medkour   +4 more
doaj  

Infestação por carrapatos Argasidae e Ixodidae em pequenos mamíferos silvestres da Estação Experimental Rafael Fernandes, Mossoró/RN

open access: yesPesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
RESUMO: Poucos estudos avaliaram a diversidade de ectoparasitos e a associação deles com seus hospedeiros que ocorrem no bioma Caatinga, Nordeste do Brasil.
Josivania S. Pereira   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

African Swine Fever Virus DNA in Soft Ticks, Senegal

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
African swine fever is a highly contagious disease of pigs in Africa. Although its persistence in Senegal may be caused by asymptomatic carriers involved in the domestic transmission cycle, we demonstrated that the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai can be ...
Laurence Vial   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Semiquantitative Risk Evaluation Reveals Drivers of African Swine Fever Virus Transmission in Smallholder Pig Farms and Gaps in Biosecurity, Tanzania

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine International, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
African swine fever (ASF) has remained persistent in Tanzania since the early 2000s. Between 2020 and 2021, pig farms in twelve districts in Tanzania were infected with ASF, and ≥4,804 pigs reportedly died directly due to the disease with disruption to livelihoods.
Folorunso O. Fasina   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ornithodoros batuensis Hirst 1929

open access: yes, 2019
Ornithodoros batuensis Hirst, 1929 This bat parasite was described from an adult and a nymph collected in the Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia (Hirst 1929), where it was later found in considerable numbers crawling near cave nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) (Audy et al. 1960).
Petney, Trevor N.   +11 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Modeling Singapore’s First African Swine Fever Outbreak in Wild Boar Populations

open access: yesTransboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
African swine fever (ASF) is a virulent and lethal disease affecting domestic pigs and wild boars, with serious implications for biodiversity, food security, and the economy. Since its reemergence in Europe, ASF has become widespread, and Singapore reported its first ASF outbreak in its wild boar population.
Rayson Bock Hing Lim   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
Evidence for the tickborne nature of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV) is indirect because AHFV has not been detected in arthropods. One Ornithodoros savignyi tick from Saudi Arabia contained AHFV RNA. This is the first direct evidence that AHFV is
Rémi N. Charrel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ornithodoros brodyi Matheson 1935

open access: yes, 2019
Published as part of Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, Herrera-Mares, Angel, Robbins, Richard G. & Rebollo-Hernández, Andrea, 2019, The soft ticks (Parasitiformes: Ixodida: Argasidae) of Mexico: species, hosts, and geographical distribution, pp.
Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Molecular Characterization of Tickborne Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Israel

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Blood samples from 18 tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) patients and Ornithodoros tholozani specimens were tested with a Borrelia flaB-PCR. Results were positive for all patients and 2%–40% of ticks.
Marc Victor Assous   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of wild hosts (wild pigs and ticks) in the epidemiology of African swine fever in West Africa and Madagascar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
African swine fever (ASF) adversely affects pig production in Sub-Saharan Africa. In southern and eastern Africa, the virus is maintained in populations of wild pigs (Phacochoerus africanus) and soft ticks from the Genus Ornithodoros.
Akakpo, J.   +9 more
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