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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 +5 more
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Identification of Bartonellae in the Soft Tick Species Ornithodoros sonrai in Senegal [PDF]
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2014 Ticks, belonging to the soft ticks species Ornithodorus sonrai, have been collected from six sites in Senegal and were tested for the presence of Bartonella spp. Initial screening by PCR revealed the presence of these bacteria in ticks from two villages, Soulkhou Thissé (5/8, 62.5%) and Maka Gouye (1/24, 4.2%).
/Mediannikov, Oleg +3 more
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Suitable habitats for Palearctic Ornithodoros soft ticks
, 2017 Ticks are economically and medically important due to injuries to livestock directly caused by their bite and their ability to transmit pathogens to humans and animals. While hard ticks (Ixodidae) have been extensively studied, the ability of soft ticks (Argasidae) to transmit pathogens to humans and domestic animals remains underestimated (Gray ...
De Clercq, Eva M. +10 more
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Ticks of Delaware revisited: an updated checklist of hard ticks (Ixodidae) and first records of soft ticks (Argasidae) in the First State. [PDF]
J Med EntomolAbstract It has been more than three-quarters of a century since the inaugural report of Delaware’s ticks was published. To provide an updated checklist of tick species currently known to occur in Delaware, we reviewed the scientific literature, examined tick collections, accessed archived tick specimen data, and analyzed findings from ...
Kennedy AC +7 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 +3 more
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Argasid Ticks of Palearctic Bats: Distribution, Host Selection, and Zoonotic Importance
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 The soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) are ectoparasites of terrestrial vertebrates with a wide geographic distribution, occurring on all continents. These ticks are obligate blood-feeders, most of them show high degrees of host-specialization and several ...
Attila D. Sándor +5 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Ticks transmit numerous pathogens to animals including humans; therefore, they are parasites of health concern. Soft ticks infesting domestic fowl in Pakistan are carriers of viruses and bacteria and cause unestimated economic losses in the poultry ...
Hafsa Zahid +5 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 The ecology and host feeding patterns of many soft ticks (Ixodida: Argasidae) remain poorly understood. To address soft tick–host feeding associations, we fed Ornithodoros turicata Dugès on multiple host species and evaluated quantitative PCR (qPCR) and ...
Hee J. Kim +4 more
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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 M B, Francischetti +6 more
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Viral isolation and laboratory vector competence experiments on hard and soft African ticks.
, 2022 Viral isolation and laboratory vector competence experiments on hard and soft African ticks.
Cheikh Tidiane Diagne (2824418) +11 more
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