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Molecular screening for Midichloria in hard and soft ticks reveals variable prevalence levels and bacterial loads in different tick species [PDF]

, 2016
Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii, symbiont of the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus, was the first described member of the family Candidatus Midichloriaceae, order Rickettsiales.
Plantard, O., Bazzocchi, C, A. Cafiso, Opara, Maxwell N., C. Bazzocchi, M. Opara, Plantard, Olivier, O. Plantard, Opara, Mn, DE MARCO, LEONE, L. De Marco, D. Sassera, SASSERA, DAVIDE, Bazzocchi, Chiara, CAFISO, ALESSANDRA   +14 more
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Detection of Babesia spp., Theileria spp., and Anaplasma ovis in Ornithodoros lahorensis from southern Xinjiang, China

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2023
Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that have negative economic impacts and can spread a variety of diseases through their bites. There are few reports on soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae) and tick-borne pathogens in southern Xinjiang, China.
Li Siang, Zhang Liu, Zhou Peng, Li Zheng, Song Haonan, Song Yaping, Li Chuan, Xiangzheng Wanqi, Wu Junyuan   +8 more
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Expounding the role of tick in Africa swine fever virus transmission and seeking effective prevention measures: A review

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious, deadly infectious disease, has caused huge economic losses to animal husbandry with a 100% mortality rate of the most acute and acute infection, which is listed as a legally reported animal disease by the ...
Tianbao Lv, Xufeng Xie, Ning Song, Shilei Zhang, Yue Ding, Kun Liu, Luteng Diao, Xi Chen, Shuang Jiang, Tiger Li, Wenlong Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Yongguo Cao, Yongguo Cao   +13 more
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Savicalin, a lipocalin from hemocytes of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi [PDF]

, 2010
Savicalin, is a lipocalin found in the hemocytes of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi. It could be assigned to the tick lipocalin family based on BLAST analysis. Savicalin is the first non-salivary gland lipocalin described in ticks.
Cheng, Paul H., Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes), Neitz, Albert Walter Herman, Gaspar, Anabella Regina Marques   +3 more
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A soft tick vector of Babesia sp. YLG in Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) nests [PDF]

, 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.
Jouglin, Maggy, Malandrin, Laurence, Bonsergent, Claire, Leray, Carole, Mccoy, Karen, McCoy, Karen D., Buysse, Marie, Vittecoq, Marion   +7 more
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Potential Role of Avian Populations in the Epidemiology of Rickettsia spp. and Babesia spp.

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
Birds often are carriers of hard and/or soft ticks harboring pathogens of humans and veterinary concern. Migratory avian species, which cover long distance by their flight, may deeply influence the ticks’ distribution worldwide; in particular, they can ...
Valentina Virginia Ebani, Francesca Mancianti   +1 more
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Nuttalliella namaqua: a living fossil and closest relative to the ancestral tick lineage: implications for the evolution of blood-feeding in ticks.

PLoS ONE, 2011
Ticks are monophyletic and composed of the hard (Ixodidae) and soft (Argasidae) tick families, as well as the Nuttalliellidae, a family with a single species, Nuttalliella namaqua.
Ben J Mans, Daniel de Klerk, Ronel Pienaar, Abdalla A Latif   +3 more
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Biological and ecological characteristics of soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) and their impact for predicting tick and associated disease distribution

Parasite, 2009
As evidence of global changes is accumulating, scientists are challenged to detect distribution changes of vectors, reservoirs and pathogens caused by anthropogenic and/or environmental changes.
Vial L.
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Coxiella symbiont in the tick Ornithodoros rostratus (Acari: Argasidae)

, 2012
In the present study, the presence of tick-associated bacteria and protozoa in Ornithodoros rostratus ticks (adults, nymphs, and eggs) from the Pantanal region of Brazil were determined by molecular detection.
Almeida, Aliny P., Marcili, Arlei, Labruna, Marcelo B., Leite, Romario C., Domingues, Luisa N., Martins, Joao Ricardo, Nieri-Bastos, Fernanda A.   +6 more
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Identification and genetic characterization of Xiabuqu River virus: A novel member of the Iflaviridae family detected in soft ticks from Tibet, China

Virus Research
Soft ticks, an important group of blood-sucking arthropods in nature, are widely distributed globally and can carry a wide range of pathogens, including Theileria ovis, Anaplasma ovis, Rickettsia spp. and African swine fever virus.
Meixi Ren, Mingli Sun, bataj Dan, Yingxin Tu, Guoyu Niu, Weiping Lin, Hengyi Sun, Yujing Zhu   +7 more
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