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Development of vaccines against Ornithodoros soft ticks: An update [PDF]

open access: yesTicks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2015
Ticks are parasites of great medical and veterinary importance since they are vectors of numerous pathogens that affect humans, livestock and pets. Among the argasids, several species of the genus Ornithodoros transmit serious diseases such as tick-borne human relapsing fever (TBRF) and African Swine Fever (ASF).
Díaz Martín, Verónica   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from an Ornithodoros sonrai tick from Senegal

open access: yesNew Microbes and New Infections, 2019
Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., strain OS09T (= CSURB624T = DSM 23169), is the type strain of Bartonella massiliensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Bartonella.
H. Medkour   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phylogenomics of Tick Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels and Their Potential as Targets to Innovate Control Technologies

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
This study was conducted to enhance the identification of novel targets to develop acaricides that can be used to advance integrated tick-borne disease management.
Perot Saelao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of climate change on vector-borne viruses in the EU through the elicitation of expert opinion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Expert opinion was elicited to undertake a qualitative risk assessment to estimate the current and future risks to the European Union (EU) from five vector-borne viruses listed by the World Organization for Animal Health.
Brouwer, A.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Detection of Babesia spp., Theileria spp., and Anaplasma ovis in Ornithodoros lahorensis from southern Xinjiang, China

open access: yesJournal 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expounding the role of tick in Africa swine fever virus transmission and seeking effective prevention measures: A review

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal Care in the Soft Tick Antricola marginatus

open access: yesJournal 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.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Otobius megnini (Acari: Argasidae) in Iran: exotic or established?

open access: yesPersian Journal of Acarology, 2018
Otobius megnini is a tick species which it's larvae and nymphs feed deep in the external ear canal of a variety of ungulates. In this study, twelve adult and four nymph specimens were collected from cattle hosts in Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hamedan ...
Asadollah Hosseini Chegeni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging DNA Arbovirus

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the sole member of the family Asfarviridae, and the only known DNA arbovirus. Since its identification in Kenya in 1921, ASFV has remained endemic in Africa, maintained in a sylvatic cycle between Ornithodoros soft ...
Natasha N. Gaudreault   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simulations of Mixed Morphology Supernova Remnants With Anisotropic Thermal Conduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We explore the role of anisotropic thermal conduction on the evolution of supernova remnants through interstellar media with a range of densities via numerical simulations. We find that a remnant expanding in a dense environment can produce centre-bright
Asplund   +63 more
core   +2 more sources

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