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Tick range expansion to higher elevations: does Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato facilitate the colonisation of marginal habitats?

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background Parasites can alter host and vector phenotype and thereby affect ecological processes in natural populations. Laboratory studies have suggested that Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the causative agent of human Lyme borreliosis, may induce ...
Mélissa Lemoine, Luca Cornetti, Kevin Reeh, Barbara Tschirren   +3 more
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Genetic analysis challenges the presence of Ixodes inopinatus in Central Europe: development of a multiplex PCR to distinguish I. inopinatus from I. ricinus

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Ixodes ricinus is an important vector of several pathogens, primarily in Europe. Recently, Ixodes inopinatus was described from Spain, Portugal, and North Africa and then reported from several European countries.
Kristyna Hrazdilova, Ondrej Danek, Alena Hrbatova, Barbora Cervena, Eva Noskova, Peter Adamik, Jan Votypka, Andrei Daniel Mihalca, Mechouk Noureddine, David Modry, Ludek Zurek   +10 more
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Evaluation of cerebroprotective effect of Ricinus communis leaves against ischemia reperfusion injury in rats

Clinical Phytoscience, 2021
Background Ricinus communis (RC) has been used for a long time as natural origin medicine in the treatment of central nervous system ailments. This present study was designed to identify the possible role of Ricinus communis leaves extract against ...
Nesar Ahmad, Anuradha Mishra, Farogh Ahsan, Zafar Khan   +3 more
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Climate change influences on the potential geographic distribution of the disease vector tick Ixodes ricinus. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Ixodes ricinus is a species of hard tick that transmits several important diseases in Europe and North Africa, including Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis.
Abdelghafar A Alkishe, A Townsend Peterson, Abdallah M Samy   +2 more
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Vaccination against Bm86 Homologues in Rabbits Does Not Impair Ixodes ricinus Feeding or Oviposition. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Human tick-borne diseases that are transmitted by Ixodes ricinus, such as Lyme borreliosis and tick borne encephalitis, are on the rise in Europe. Diminishing I. ricinus populations in nature can reduce tick exposure to humans, and one way to do so is by
Jeroen Coumou, Alex Wagemakers, Jos J Trentelman, Ard M Nijhof, Joppe W Hovius   +4 more
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The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology

Bonplandia, 2018
This work studied the historical evidence of the cultivation of “amba’y”, Cecropia pachystachya (Urticaceae) in domestic areas of Guarani communities and its replacement by the castor bean or “ricino”, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), whose cultivation ...
Héctor Alejandro Keller, Analía Pirondo, Pablo Stampella   +2 more
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Seasonal distribution of Borreliae in Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Belgrade region [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2006
Green areas at four localities in the Belgrade region (Ada Ciganlija, Košutnjak, Miljakovac forest, and Mt. Avala) were investigated in 2004. The aim of the research was to clarify the faunistic composition, relative abundance, and population dynamics of
Milutinović Marija, Radulović Ž., Tomanović Snežana, Tomanović Ž.   +3 more
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Using imperfect data in predictive mapping of vectors: a regional example of Ixodes ricinus distribution

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Knowledge of Ixodes ricinus tick distribution is critical for surveillance and risk management of transmissible tick-borne diseases such as Lyme borreliosis. However, as the ecology of I. ricinus is complex, and robust long-term geographically
Rita Ribeiro, Jude I. Eze, Lucy Gilbert, G. R. William Wint, George Gunn, Alastair Macrae, Jolyon M. Medlock, Harriet Auty   +7 more
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Sympatric occurrence of Ixodes ricinus with Dermacentor reticulatus and Haemaphysalis concinna and the associated tick-borne pathogens near the German Baltic coast

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background Ixodid ticks from the Northern Hemisphere have registered a northward expansion in recent years, and Dermacentor reticulatus is such an example in Europe, its expansion being considered a result of climate change alongside other factors.
Cristian Răileanu, Oliver Tauchmann, Cornelia Silaghi   +2 more
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Chewing lice of genus Ricinus (Phthiraptera, Ricinidae) deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia, with description of a new species

Parasite, 2016
We revised a collection of chewing lice deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia. We studied 60 slides with 107 specimens of 10 species of the genus Ricinus (De Geer, 1778).
Valan Miroslav, Sychra Oldrich, Literak Ivan   +2 more
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