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Terminal Genome Sequences of the Soft Tick Bunyavirus. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc, 2020
The complete genome sequence of the soft tick bunyavirus (STBV) was obtained using the Sanger sequencing technique. Comparison with other viral sequences revealed that STBV has unique sequences in the terminal regions that are highly conserved among the ...
Sugimoto S, Suda Y, Yoshikawa T, Kurosu T, Mizutani T, Saijo M, Shimojima M.   +6 more
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Successful Infection of Domestic Pigs by Ingestion of the European Soft Tick O. Erraticus That Fed on African Swine Fever Virus Infected Pig [PDF]

Viruses, 2020
African swine fever is a highly lethal hemorrhagic fever of Suidae, threatening pig production globally. Suidae can be infected by different ways like ingestion of contaminated feed, direct contact with infected animals or fomites, and biting by infected
Rémi Pereira De Oliveira, Evelyne Hutet, Maxime Duhayon, Jean-Marie Guionnet, Frédéric Paboeuf, Laurence Vial, Marie-Frédérique Le Potier   +6 more
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Comparative vector competence of the Afrotropical soft tick Ornithodoros moubata and Palearctic species, O. erraticus and O. verrucosus, for African swine fever virus strains circulating in Eurasia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
African swine fever (ASF) is a lethal hemorrhagic disease in domestic pigs and wild suids caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV), which threatens the swine industry globally.
Rémi Pereira de Oliveira, Evelyne Hutet, Frédéric Paboeuf, Maxime Duhayon, Fernando Boinas, Adalberto Perez de Leon, Serhii Filatov, Laurence Vial, Marie-Frédérique Le Potier   +8 more
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Identification of a rickettsial endosymbiont in a soft tick Ornithodoros turicata americanus. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Bacterial endosymbionts are abundantly found in both hard and soft ticks. Occidentia massiliensis, a rickettsial endosymbiont, was first identified in the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai collected from Senegal and later was identified in a hard tick ...
Lichao Liu, Daniel E Sonenshine, Hameeda Sultana, Girish Neelakanta   +3 more
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Soft Tick Relapsing Fever - United States, 2012-2021. [PDF]

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2023
Soft tick relapsing fever (STRF) (also known as tickborne relapsing fever) is a rare infection caused by certain Borrelia spirochetes and transmitted to humans by soft-bodied Ornithodoros ticks.
Beeson AM, Kjemtrup A, Oltean H, Schnitzler H, Venkat H, Ruberto I, Marzec N, Cozart D, Tengelsen L, Ladd-Wilson S, Rettler H, Mayes B, Broussard K, Garcia A, Drake LL, Dietrich EA, Petersen J, Hinckley AF, Kugeler KJ, Marx GE.   +19 more
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Exploring the transcriptome of immature stages of Ornithodoros hermsi, the soft-tick vector of tick-borne relapsing fever [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Blood-feeding behavior has independently evolved in arthropods multiple times. Unlike hard ticks, soft ticks employ a rapid-feeding strategy for hematophagy, and there are comparatively limited studies on the transcriptomes of these organisms. This study
Lucas C. de Sousa-Paula, Markus Berger, Octavio A. C. Talyuli, Cindi L. Schwartz, Greg A. Saturday, José M. C. Ribeiro, Lucas Tirloni   +6 more
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Identification of African swine fever virus-like elements in the soft tick genome provides insights into the virus’ evolution [PDF]

BMC Biology, 2020
Background African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a most devastating pathogen affecting swine. In 2007, ASFV was introduced into Eastern Europe where it continuously circulates and recently reached Western Europe and Asia, leading to a socio-economic crisis
Jan H. Forth, Leonie F. Forth, Samantha Lycett, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Günther M. Keil, Sandra Blome, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Antje Wissgott, Johannes Krause, Dirk Höper, Helge Kampen, Martin Beer   +11 more
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General Microbiota of the Soft Tick Ornithodoros turicata Parasitizing the Bolson Tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus) in the Mapimi Biosphere Reserve, Mexico [PDF]

Biology, 2020
The general bacterial microbiota of the soft tick Ornithodoros turicata found on Bolson tortoises (Gopherus flavomarginatus) were analyzed using next generation sequencing.
Sergio I. Barraza-Guerrero, César A. Meza-Herrera, Cristina García-De la Peña, Vicente H. González-Álvarez, Felipe Vaca-Paniagua, Clara E. Díaz-Velásquez, Francisco Sánchez-Tortosa, Verónica Ávila-Rodríguez, Luis M. Valenzuela-Núñez, Juan C. Herrera-Salazar   +9 more
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Mitochondrial gene heterogeneity of the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae) in the Palaearctic. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors, 2017
BackgroundRecently, a high degree of mitochondrial gene heterogeneity was demonstrated between conspecific ixodid ticks of bats in Eurasia. Argas vespertilionis is a soft tick species of mainly vespertilionid bats, also with a wide distribution in the ...
Hornok S, Hornok S, Szőke K, Tu VT, Kontschán J, Takács N, Sándor AD, Halajian A, Földvári G, Estók P, Plantard O, Epis S, Görföl T.   +12 more
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Comparative genomics analysis of three conserved plasmid families in the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae provides insight into variation in genome structure and antigenic variation systems. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr, 2023
Borrelia spirochetes, causative agents of Lyme disease and relapsing fever (RF), have uniquely complex genomes, consisting of a linear chromosome and both circular and linear plasmids. The plasmids harbor genes important for the vector-host life cycle of
Kneubehl AR, Lopez JE.
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