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Tick vaccines and the control of tick-borne pathogens [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2013 Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites that transmit a wide variety of pathogens to humans and animals. The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased worldwide in both humans and domestic animals over the past years resulting in greater interest in the study of tick-host-pathogen interactions.
Pilar Alberdi +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A novel stratum corneum‐inspired zwitterionic hydrogel is developed for intelligent, flexible sensors, featuring intrinsic water retention and anti‐freezing properties. The quasi‐gel, composed of hygroscopic polymers and bound water, maintains its softness across a wide range of humidity.
Meng Wu +8 more
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Molecular insights into Neotropical bird-tick ecological associations and the role of birds in tick-borne disease ecology [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Ticks are important vectors of emerging zoonotic diseases. While adults of many tick species parasitize mammals, immature ticks are often found on wild birds. In the tropics, difficulties in species-level identification of immature ticks hinder studies of tick ecology and tick-borne disease transmission, including any potential role for birds.
arxiv
Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Via Magnetic Field Assisted Oligomerization
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This article presents a straightforward method for designing programmable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) actuators using magnetic field alignment. It combines thio‐Michael polyaddition for efficient LCE synthesis with a strategy that preserves the nematic phase, enabling the alignment of high molecular weight LCOs.
Rakine Mouhoubi +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Chagas disease, caused by the hemoflagellate protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects nearly 6 million people worldwide, mainly in Latin America. Hematophagous triatomine insects (“kissing bugs”) are the primary vectors of T.
Allison E. Mann +8 more
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Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 In this work, we provide a framework linking microstructural properties of an asset to the tick value of the exchange. In particular, we bring to light a quantity, referred to as implicit spread, playing the role of spread for large tick assets, for which the effective spread is almost always equal to one tick.
arxiv
Integrated control of vector-borne diseases of livestock--pyrethroids: panacea or poison?
, 2003 Tick- and tsetse-borne diseases cost Africa approximately US$4-5 billion per year in livestock production-associated losses. The use of pyrethroid-treated cattle to control ticks and tsetse promises to be an increasingly important tool to counter this ...
Coleman, Paul G +4 more
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New Michigan Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) and Flea (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) Records From Colonial Nesting Birds [PDF]
, 2018 Banding and censusing large numbers of gull chicks over a 30-year period on Great Lakes islands has produced a collection of five individual ticks from two Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) chicks.
Scharf, William C
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The Good, the Bad and the Tick [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2019 How tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) could help us understand cancer? The diversity of pathogens transmitted by ticks is higher than that of any other known arthropod vector and includes protozoa (e.g., Babesia spp. and Theileria spp.), bacteria (e.g., intracellular Rickettsia spp.
Agustín Estrada-Peña +3 more
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