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Maternal Care in the Soft Tick Antricola marginatus [PDF]

Journal of Parasitology, 2012
Among spiders, scorpions, and whip spiders, a common type of maternal care consists of females carrying newly hatched offspring on their body for a few days until they are able to live independently. While this maternal care has been suggested to occur in different argasid tick species, it has been recorded only once, for Antricola marginatus in Cuba ...
Labruna, M. B., Nava, Santiago, Guzmn Cornejo, C., Venzal, J. M.   +3 more
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Ornithodoros sonrai Soft Ticks and Associated Bacteria in Senegal

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, Adama Zan Diarra, Fatou Samba Diouf, Charles Bouganali, Lionel Almeras, Cheikh Sokhna, Georges Diatta, Philippe Parola   +7 more
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African Swine Fever Virus DNA in Soft Ticks, Senegal

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, Barbara Wieland, Ferran Jori, Eric Etter, Linda Dixon, François Roger   +5 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
europepmc   +3 more sources

Mitochondrial gene heterogeneity of the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae) in the Palaearctic. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors, 2017
Mitochondrial gene heterogeneity of the bat soft tick Argas vespertilionis (Ixodida: Argasidae) 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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A serological assay to detect and differentiate rodent exposure to soft tick and hard tick relapsing fever infections in the United States. [PDF]

Ticks Tick Borne Dis, 2023
Human cases of relapsing fever (RF) in North America are caused primarily by Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae, which are spread by argasid (soft) ticks, and by Borrelia miyamotoi, which is transmitted by ixodid (hard) ticks. In some regions of the
Parise CM, Bai Y, Brandt KS, Ford SL, Maes S, Replogle AJ, Kneubehl AR, Lopez JE, Eisen RJ, Hojgaard A.   +9 more
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A soft tick Ornithodoros moubata salivary protein OmCI is a potent inhibitor to prevent avian complement activation. [PDF]

Ticks Tick Borne Dis, 2020
Complement is a key first line innate host defense system in the blood of vertebrates. Upon activation, this powerful defense mechanism can elicit inflammatory responses, lyse non-self-cells, or mark them for opsonophagocytic removal.
Frye AM, Hart TM, Tufts DM, Ram S, Diuk-Wasser MA, Kraiczy P, Blom AM, Lin YP.   +7 more
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Editorial: Soft ticks as parasites and vectors

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Soft ticks are interesting ectoparasites due to their ecological habits and unique blood-feeding biology. The wide-ranging nature of research into these parasites is reflected in the diverse set of papers captured in this special issue. Fundamental questions are addressed in the 9 articles included in this Research Topic that focuses on ecology, tick ...
Ben J. Mans, Ben J. Mans, Ben J. Mans, José M. Venzal, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal   +4 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
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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, Jan Erhart, Petr Kopáček, Jan Perner   +3 more
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