Ixodes scapularis
Flavivirus Infection of Ixodes scapularis (Black Legged Tick) Ex Vivo Organotypic Cultures and Applications for Disease Control
... ABSTRACT Ixodes scapularis ticks transmit many infectious agents that cause disease, including tick-borne flaviviruses ...I. scapularis organs are poorly characterized, and a deeper understanding of ...
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Human pathogens associated with the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis: a systematic review
... (mean = 2.3 ± 0.28; median = 2; n = 149). We performed multiple tests on the same dataset, however, since these P-values are very small, adjusting for multiple testing would not alter the statistical significance of the ...
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Comparison of phenology and pathogen prevalence, including infection with the Ehrlichia muris like (EML) agent, of Ixodes scapularis removed from soldiers in the midwestern and the northeastern United States over a 15 year period (1997 2012)
... Ixodes scapularis is an important vector for several human pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, Ana- plasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and the newly- described Ehrlichia muris-like (EML) agent ...
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Orchestration of salivary secretion mediated by two different dopamine receptors in the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis
... Ticks are obligatory ectoparasites of many vertebrates and transmit pathogens that cause numerous diseases, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), and southern tick- associated rash illness (STARI). ...
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Adverse moisture events predict seasonal abundance of Lyme disease vector ticks (Ixodes scapularis)
... Background: Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in north temperate regions worldwide, affecting an estimated 300,000 people annually in the United States alone. The incidence of LB is ...
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Defensins from the tick Ixodes scapularis are effective against phytopathogenic fungi and the human bacterial pathogen Listeria grayi
... tick Ixodes scapularis is an important vector of pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi, Babesia microti and Anaplasma phagocytophilum that cause im- portant diseases in humans and ...I. scapularis, ...
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Attachment of Borrelia burgdorferi within Ixodes scapularis mediated by outer surface protein A
... vaccine that blocks transmission: OspA antibodies of immune hosts enter ticks during blood feeding and destroy spirochetes before transmission to the host can occur. B. burgdorferi produce OspA in the gut of unfed ...
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Comparative speed of kill of sarolaner (Simparica™) and afoxolaner (NexGard®) against induced infestations of Ixodes scapularis on dogs
... tick, Ixodes scapularis, commonly infests dogs and cats in North America and is the main vector for the pathogen that causes Lyme disease in dogs and ...I. scapularis on dogs was evaluated and ...
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Novel Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes dentatus ticks feeding on humans
... from Ixodes scapularis ticks and from white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and 1 isolate from an Ixodes dentatus ...I. scapularis and the isolate from ...I. scapularis lacked OspA ...
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Acquisition and Transmission of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis by Ixodes scapularis Ticks
... vector, Ixodes scapularis, is most ...I. scapularis also serves as the vector for Borrelia burg- dorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, and Babesia microti (1, 3, 7, 13, 18, 23, ...
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Phylogenetic Placement of Rickettsiae from the Ticks Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes scapularis
... ticks, Ixodes scapularis, also harbor within their ovarian tissues (37) prokaryotes that resemble SFG rick- ettsiae, but, like ...I. scapularis ticks do not ap- pear to be vectors of pathogenic SFG ...
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Genetic variation in the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)
... (Ixodes scapularis) in North America has continued to expand in the Upper Midwest of the United States [4,5], and in southern Canada ...I. scapularis is the principal vector of Borrelia burgdorferi ...
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Characterization of an iron inducible Haemaphysalis longicornis tick derived promoter in an Ixodes scapularis derived tick cell line (ISE6)
... The development of transgenic ticks requires an effec- tive promoter derived from the organisms themselves. In mosquitoes, it is believed that the best candidate pro- moters for the expression of foreign genes are those ...
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Is selenoprotein K required for Borrelia burgdorferi infection within the tick vector Ixodes scapularis?
... [34]. Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma maculatum, and ...I. scapularis has 50% ...I. scapularis contains most of the selenogenes which have already been characterized in ...I. scapularis ...
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Identification of Novel Viruses in Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis Ticks
... in Ixodes scapularis (the blacklegged tick), Dermacentor variabilis (the American dog tick), and Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) collected at a single site in New York State (6, ...I. ...
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Detection of Borreliacidal Antibodies in Dogs after Challenge with Borrelia burgdorferi Infected Ixodes scapularis Ticks
... Detection of borreliacidal antibodies is an accurate serodiagnostic test for confirmation of Lyme disease in humans. In this study, 13 pathogen-free beagles, 12 to 26 weeks old, were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi by ...
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum induces Ixodes scapularis ticks to express an antifreeze glycoprotein gene that enhances their survival in the cold
... States, Ixodes scapularis ticks overwinter in the Northeast and Upper Midwest and transmit the agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, among other ...I. scapularis ticks ...
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Dissecting Flavivirus Biology in Salivary Gland Cultures from Fed and Unfed Ixodes scapularis (Black Legged Tick)
... The Ixodes scapularis tick transmits a number of pathogens, including tick-borne flaviviruses ...I. scapularis vanin (VNN) involved with TBFV infection of I. scapularis ISE6 embryonic cells, ...
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Multiple infections of Ixodes scapularis ticks by Borrelia burgdorferi as revealed by single strand conformation polymorphism analysis
... Natural isolates of B. burgdorferi were sampled by collecting the black-legged or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) from Shelter Island, N.Y. This tick is the primary vector for B. burgdorferi. A portion of the ...
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Exploring the sialome of the tick Ixodes scapularis
... tick Ixodes scapularis, the main vector of Lyme disease in the eastern US, has a salivary apyrase (Ribeiro et ...I. scapularis saliva (Ribeiro et ...in Ixodes (Ribeiro and Mather, 1998) ...
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