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Tick Cell Lines in Research on Tick Control [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Ticks and the diseases they transmit are of huge veterinary, medical and economic importance worldwide. Control of ticks attacking livestock and companion animals is achieved primarily by application of chemical or plant-based acaricides.
Ahmed Al-Rofaai, Lesley Bell-Sakyi
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Innovative approaches for the control of ticks and tick-borne diseases
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023 Ticks and tick-borne diseases constitute a major threat for human and animal health worldwide. Vaccines for the control of tick infestations and transmitted pathogens still represents a challenge for science and health.
José de la Fuente +2 more
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Approaches towards tick and tick-borne diseases control [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2013 Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites of wild and domestic animals as well as humans, considered to be second worldwide to mosquitoes as vectors of human diseases. Tick-borne diseases are responsible worldwide for great economic losses in terms
Ana Domingos +3 more
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Current debates and advances in tick microbiome research
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-borne Diseases, 2021 The main importance of ticks resides in their ability to harbor pathogens that can be transmitted to terrestrial vertebrates including humans. Recently, studies have focused on the taxonomic and functional composition of the tick microbiome, its ...
Adnan Hodzic +2 more
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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.
Octavio Merino +2 more
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Current Tick Control Strategies and Prospects for Using Nanotechnology as an Efficient Alternative—A Review [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesTicks pose significant challenges to public and veterinary health, acting as vectors of several diseases that affect animals and humans. Traditional chemical control methods, such as pyrethroids and organophosphates, have led to increasing resistance and
Rafaela Regina Fantatto +9 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2017 New tick and tick-borne pathogen control approaches that are both environmentally sustainable and which provide broad protection are urgently needed. Their development, however, will rely on a greater understanding of tick biology, tick-pathogen, and ...
Thierry Foulon +2 more
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Management, socioeconomics, and One Health determinants of tick infestation in communal cattle production systems of South Africa [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceBackgroundTick infestation constrains livestock productivity and predisposes to zoonotic tick-borne disease. Therefore, this study examined management, socio-economic, and the human and environmental determinants of tick infestation in communal cattle ...
Makhado P. Sedina +3 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 Haemaphysalis chordeilis Packard, also known as the grouse or bird tick, is a three-host tick native to North America. Literature from the early 20th century reported a widespread distribution of this tick across the US and Canada.
Andrea Egizi, Lauren P. Maestas
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Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly described relapsing fever spirochete transmitted by ixodid tick species. Little is known about the prevalence of B. miyamotoi infections in humans and ticks in Inner Mongolia, China. Therefore, we investigated the
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