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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Venom producing animals are ubiquitously disseminated among vertebrates and invertebrates such as fish, snakes, scorpions, spiders, and ticks. Of the ~890 tick species worldwide, 27 have been confirmed to cause paralysis in mammalian hosts.
Manuel Rodriguez-Valle +10 more
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A Review of Australian Tick Vaccine Research
Vaccines, 2021 Tick vaccine research in Australia has demonstrated leadership worldwide through the development of the first anti-tick vaccine in the 1990s. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) research led to the ...
Ala E. Tabor
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Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2023 The Australian paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus continues to be a serious threat to companion animals along Australia’s east coast. The tick produces a potent neurotoxin which causes a rapidly ascending flaccid paralysis, which if left untreated, can ...
Florian Roeber +6 more
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Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2021 Tick control is mainly achieved through the use of effective ectoparasiticides that can be either dermally or systemically distributed in/on the host. Before any acaricide can be legally made available to veterinarians and pet owners, it must demonstrate
Florian Roeber, Maurice Webster
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Occurrence and Haematology of Canine Tick-Borne Protozoa in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. [PDF]
Vet Med Sci• 30.62% of dogs were infested with Rhipicephalus sanguineus, which was mostly found on their neck and chest; however, infection with protozoa was 23.13%, where Babesia canis was the most prevalent (11.88%). • RBC counts, haemoglobin and PCV were significantly lower in infected dogs with higher eosinophilic counts.
Khatun MA +3 more
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A rare cause of peripheral facial paralysis in childhood in our country: lyme disease [PDF]
, 2017 Lyme disease is a zoonosis caused by Spirochetes called Borrelia burgdorferi, involving several areas, such as the skin, heart and central nervous system.
Gürses, Dolunay, Özdemir, Emine
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Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and tick-borne diseases of sheep and goats in Africa: A review
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023 Ticks are leading vectors of economically important pathogens that affect small ruminants due to favourable climatic conditions across different regions of the African continent.
ThankGod E. Onyiche, Ewan Thomas MacLeod
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Predicting the potential distribution of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) infestation in New Zealand, using maximum entropy-based ecological niche modelling [PDF]
, 2020 Publishe
Ganta, RR +5 more
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Ticks infesting humans in Central America: A review of their relevance in public health
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2022 Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that parasitize most groups of terrestrial or semiaquatic vertebrates. Humans are accidental hosts to the ticks; however, in humans the ticks can cause damages varying from simple irritation to severe allergies ...
Sergio Bermúdez C. +4 more
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