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Range Modeling and Surveillance of <i>Ornithodoros turicata</i> Ticks: Implications for Detecting African Swine Fever Virus in the United States. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Ornithodoros turicata collected from a dry ice baited tick trap. ABSTRACT African Swine Fever virus (ASFv) is a re‐emerging global swine disease that, if introduced to the United States, would cause severe economic consequences. The widespread presence of feral hogs in addition to the presence of competent tick vectors, specifically Ornithodoros ...
Butler CJ, Garcia CP, Mendoza AK, Akhand L, Neuman I, Ellis DB, Saleh MN.   +6 more
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Langat Virus Biology and Infection. [PDF]

Rev Med Virol
ABSTRACT Flaviviruses pose a major threat to global health and can cause severe disease in animals and humans. Among them, tick‐borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and related members of the tick‐borne encephalitis (TBE) serocomplex are transmitted primarily by ticks and can lead to neurological disease, including encephalitis and death. Despite many years
Klestova Z, Sauter D, Schindler M, Iftner T.   +3 more
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Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) ticks associated with a Rickettsia sp. in Pakistan

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background Soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) are medically important ectoparasites that mainly feed on birds and mammals, which play a key role in their geographic distribution and dispersion.
Abid Ali, Muhammad Numan, Mehran Khan, Ome Aiman, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Marcelo B. Labruna, Ard M. Nijhof   +7 more
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The epidemiology and geographic distribution of relapsing fever borreliosis in West and North Africa, with a review of the Ornithodoros erraticus complex (Acari: Ixodida). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Relapsing fever is the most frequent bacterial disease in Africa. Four main vector / pathogen complexes are classically recognized, with the louse Pediculus humanus acting as vector for B. recurrentis and the soft ticks Ornithodoros sonrai, O.
Jean-François Trape, Georges Diatta, Céline Arnathau, Idir Bitam, M'hammed Sarih, Driss Belghyti, Ali Bouattour, Eric Elguero, Laurence Vial, Youssouph Mané, Cellou Baldé, Franck Prugnolle, Gilles Chauvancy, Gil Mahé, Laurent Granjon, Jean-Marc Duplantier, Patrick Durand, François Renaud   +17 more
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Detection of African Swine Fever Virus in Ornithodoros Tick Species Associated with Indigenous and Extralimital Warthog Populations in South Africa

Viruses, 2022
We investigated the possibility that sylvatic circulation of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in warthogs and Ornithodoros ticks had extended beyond the historically affected northern part of South Africa that was declared a controlled area in 1935 to ...
Anthony F. Craig, Mathilde L. Schade-Weskott, Thapelo Rametse, Livio Heath, Gideon J. P. Kriel, Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist, Louis van Schalkwyk, Jessie D. Trujillo, Jan E. Crafford, Juergen A. Richt, Robert Swanepoel   +10 more
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Rickettsia lusitaniae in Ornithodoros Porcinus Ticks, Zambia

Pathogens, 2021
Rickettsial pathogens are amongst the emerging and re-emerging vector-borne zoonoses of public health importance. Though traditionally considered to be transmitted by ixodid ticks, the role of argasid ticks as vectors of these pathogens is increasingly ...
Simbarashe Chitanga, Herman M. Chambaro, Lavel C. Moonga, Kyoko Hayashida, Junya Yamagishi, Walter Muleya, Katendi Changula, Benjamin Mubemba, Manyando Simbotwe, David Squarre, Paul Fandamu, King S. Nalubamba, Yongjin Qiu, Sawa Hirofumi, Edgar Simulundu   +14 more
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Ornithodoros puertoricensis (Ixodida: Argasidae) Associated With Domestic Fowl in Rural Dwellings From Córdoba Department, Caribbean Colombia

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Ticks of genus Ornithodoros are nidicolous parasites associated with a wide array of vertebrates. In humans, their bites cause hypersensitivity reactions and are capable to transmit pathogens of health concern.
Yesica López, Laura Natalia Robayo-Sánchez, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Ader Aleman, Esteban Arroyave, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Jesús Alfredo Cortés-Vecino, Salim Mattar, Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez   +8 more
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Inventory and update on argasid ticks and associated pathogens in Algeria

New Microbes and New Infections, 2018
Argasid ticks include vectors of relapsing fevers caused by Borrelia spp. in humans, and they can transmit arboviruses and other bacterial pathogens. Knowledge about soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) in Algeria is incomplete, and distribution data need to ...
I. Lafri, W. Benredjem, F. Neffah-Baaziz, R. Lalout, K. Abdelouahed, B. Gassen, S. Bakhouch, M. Chergui, M. Karakellah, H. Adjmi-Hamoudi, I. Bitam   +10 more
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Integrative taxonomy of Afrotropical Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae)

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2018
Afrotropical Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) ticks are revised based on qualitative morphology of females and nymphs, as well as tarsus I shape outlines of females measured in a geometric morphometric framework. These lines of evidence corroborate lineages based on 16S rRNA nucleotide sequence data. Four previously unrecognized species are described, along
Deon K. Bakkes, Daniel De Klerk, Abdalla A. Latif, Ben J. Mans   +3 more
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Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) huajianensis sp. nov. (Acari, argasidae), a new tick species from the Mongolian marmot (Marmota bobak sibirica), Gansu province in China

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019
A new argasid species, belonging to the subgenus Ornithodoros, namely, Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) huajianensis was described for the first time based on the females, males and nymphs. The morphological features of each stage in the life cycle are unique,
Yi Sun, Rongman Xu, Zengjia Liu, Mingyu Wu, Tong Qin   +4 more
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