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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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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 genus Orthonairovirus .
Sugimoto S, Suda Y, Yoshikawa T, Kurosu T, Mizutani T, Saijo M, Shimojima M.   +6 more
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Contact between soft tick vectors of African swine fever virus and invasive wild pigs in the southeastern USA [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background African swine fever virus is a transboundary pathogen of high economic impact to the global pork industry. Florida has multiple factors that contribute to the high risk of introduction of African swine fever virus (ASFV) including high levels ...
Samantha M. Wisely, Carson Torhorst, Sebastian Botero-Cañola, Nicholas Canino, Angela M. James, Kathleen C. O’Hara   +5 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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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. In the United States, acquisition of STRF is commonly associated with exposure to rustic cabins, camping, and caves.
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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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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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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Development of microsatellite markers for the soft tick Ornithodoros phacochoerus. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Abstract Background Soft ticks of the genus Ornithodoros are responsible for the maintenance and transmission of the African swine fever (ASF) virus in the sylvatic and domestic viral cycles in Southern Africa. They are also the main vectors of the Borrelia species causing relapsing fevers.
Taraveau F, Bru D, Quembo CJ, Jourdan-Pineau H.   +3 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

An insight into the sialome of the soft tick, Ornithodorus parkeri [PDF]

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2008
While hard ticks (Ixodidae) take several days to feed on their hosts, soft ticks (Argasidae) feed faster, usually taking less than 1h per meal. Saliva assists in the feeding process by providing a cocktail of anti-hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and immunomodullatory compounds. Saliva of hard ticks has been shown to contain several families of genes each
, Ivo Francischetti, JOSÉ Ribeiro
exaly   +3 more sources