On the haem auxotrophy of the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata.
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2023 Genomes of ticks display reductions, to various extents, in genetic coding for enzymes of the haem biosynthetic pathway. Here, we mined available transcriptomes of soft tick species and identified transcripts encoding only half of the enzymes involved in haem biosynthesis.
Tereza Hatalová +3 more
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Ornithodoros sonrai Soft Ticks and Associated Bacteria in Senegal [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 The soft ticks, Ornithodoros sonrai, are known as vectors of the tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia spp. and have also been reported to carry other micro-organisms. The objective of this study was to collect and to identify O. sonrai ticks and
El Hadji Ibrahima Ndiaye +7 more
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A simple non-invasive method to collect soft tick saliva reveals differences in Ornithodoros moubata saliva composition between ticks infected and uninfected with Borrelia duttonii spirochetes. [PDF]
Front Cell Infect Microbiol, 2023 Introduction: We developed a new simple method to assess the composition of proteinaceous components in the saliva of Ornithodoros moubata, the main vehicle for pathogen transmission and a likely source of bioactive molecules acting at the tick ...
Filatov S, Dyčka F, Sterba J, Rego ROM.
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Distribution of the soft tick Carios vespertilionis in lowlands and low mountain regions of Germany. [PDF]
Exp Appl Acarol, 2023 In Germany, the knowledge about ticks infesting bats is limited, and is restricted only to a few studies, most of them dating back decades. To further improve our knowledge on ticks parasitising bats, healthy and sick bats in central Germany were ...
Fritzsche A +6 more
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African Swine Fever Virus DNA in Soft Ticks, Senegal [PDF]
Emerging 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
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Comparative genomics of the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae highlights extensive plasmid diversity. [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is a globally prevalent, yet under-studied vector-borne disease transmitted by soft and hard bodied ticks. While soft TBRF (sTBRF) spirochetes have been described for over a century, our understanding of the molecular ...
Kneubehl AR +7 more
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A soft tick vector of Babesia sp. YLG in Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) nests [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2023 Babesia sp. YLG has recently been described in Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) chicks and belongs to the Peircei clade in the new classification of Piroplasms. Here, we studied Babesia sp.
C. Bonsergent +6 more
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Acarologia, 2022 We report a case of infestation of a long-term laboratory colony of soft ticks, Ornithodoros moubata, with mites that were molecularly identified as Tyrophagus fanetzhangorum using the COI gene and discuss the possible nature of the interaction between ...
S. Filatov, J. Erhart, Ryan O. M. Rego
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Rickettsiae in the common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae). [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2020 Increasing molecular evidence supports that bats and/or their ectoparasites may harbor vector-borne bacteria, such as bartonellae and borreliae. However, the simultaneous occurrence of rickettsiae in bats and bat ticks has been poorly studied.
Zhao S +7 more
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Identification of Bartonellae in the soft tick species Ornithodoros sonrai in Senegal. [PDF]
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, 2014 Mediannikov O +3 more
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