Ixodid ticks
Ixodid ticks avoid contact with liquid water
... Ixodid ticks of different life stages avoided walking onto a wet surface surrounding a dry ...the ticks maintained contact with both the wet and dry zones; and returns to the dry patch after a short ...
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Comparative Studies on the Prevalence of Ixodid Ticks on Some Selected Sedentary Farms and Trade Cattle in Adamawa State, Nigeria
... of Ixodid Ticks on Some Selected Sedentary Farms and Trade Cattle in Adamawa ...2014). Ticks were collected from half of the body of each sampled cattle using hand-picking and preserved in a sampling ...
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Molecular epidemiology of the emerging zoonosis agent Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Foggie, 1949) in dogs and ixodid ticks in Brazil
... In Brazil, there are reports of A. phagocytophilum in- fection in dogs from November to May in Rio de Janeiro state [5]. The authors found a strong association between A. phagocytophilum-positive dogs and the presence of ...
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Response of the Ixodid Ticks Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis to Hematophagous Insect Attractants in Laboratory Assays and Field Trials.
... Ixodid ticks transmit bacteria, viruses and protozoa that cause severely debilitating diseases in humans and animals (Mullen & Durden, 2009). Tick surveillance provides information that locates tick ...
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Antigenic characteristics of Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from ixodid ticks in California
... Four species of ixodid ticks in three genera Dermacentor occidentalis, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, Ixodes neotomae, and Ixodes pacificus and a single argasid tick Ornithodoros coriac[r] ...
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Molecular detection of Anaplasma infections in ixodid ticks from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
... in ixodid ticks of Qinghai Province is poorly ...adult ticks were investigated for the infection of Anaplasma ...male ticks were significantly higher than that in the female ...the ...
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Ixodid ticks of traditionally managed cattle in central Nigeria: where Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus does not dare (yet?)
... Other Rhipicephalus species collected include Rh. san- guineus, Rh. turanicus, and Rh. lunulatus. Rh. sanguineus in cattle has previously been recorded elsewhere [23,53] including Nigeria [15,54,55] and can be related to ...
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Molecular evidence of Rickettsia spp in ixodid ticks and rodents in suburban, natural and rural habitats in Slovakia
... Genomic DNA of ticks and rodent tissues were extracted using NucleoSpin Tissue kit (Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) according to manufacturer instruction. Presence of Rickettsia spp. and C. burnetii DNA in the ...
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Fibrinogen related proteins in ixodid ticks
... Lectins/FRePs have been found in several ticks [8,15-17] in the haemolymph, the midgut, and salivary glands (SGs) [reviewed in [11]]. Generally, tick lectins display affinity towards sialic acid [8] and ...
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Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum: prevalences and investigations on a new transmission path in small mammals and ixodid ticks
... ricinus ticks, while ecotype II was described to be adapted to wild ...trianguliceps ticks [48] and ecotype IV is described to be associated with bird species but not with any other vertebrate ...
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The influence of various factors on fluid secretion by in vitro salivary glands of ixodid Ticks
... Salivary glands of the female ixodid tick, Dermacentor andersoni, secrete fluid in vitro when bathed in a slightly modified version of the mammalian tissue culture medium 'TC 199'.. Rate[r] ...
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Role of mustelids in the life cycle of ixodid ticks and transmission cycles of four tick borne pathogens
... As only a few previous studies have been performed on the burden of I. ricinus on mustelids, it is difficult to put our results into perspective. We found a higher prevalence of infestation and average I. ricinus burden ...
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Rickettsiae and Borrelia burgdorferi in ixodid ticks
... Nymphs and adults of hard-bodied ticks were collected in Connecticut and tested by direct and indirect immunofluorescence staining methods for rickettsiae and Borrelia burgdorferi.. Of t[r] ...
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Comparisons of the foveae dorsales in male and female ixodid ticks Amblyomma americanum, A. maculatum, Dermacentor andersoni and D. variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)
... Adult 0 Amblyomma maculatum: cryofractured section through the foveae dorsales showing foveal gland (arrows) and cuticular canals (*) leading to the exterior slit openings of the foveae [r] ...
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Study on Prevalence of Major Ixodid Ticks of Cattle, in Selected Sites of Harari Region, Eastern Ethiopia
... host ticks of the genus Boophilus that parasitize ruminants represent a hindrance to livestock faming in tropical and sub–tropical ...total ticks collected in the study ...
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Ticks and Tick-borne diseases in Ireland
... five ixodid species, feeding periods of 2 to 8 days have been re- ported for larvae, 4 to 10 days for nymphs and up to 13 days for adult females (adult males do not engorge and in Ixodes spp only feed briefly if ...
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Mechanical properties of the cuticle of the tick Amblyomma hebraeum (Acari: Ixodidae)
... In terrestrial arthropods, at least four variables influence the properties of the cuticle: (1) the relative amount of chitin fibrils and protein matrix, (2) the protein composition, (3) the pH/water content of the ...
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Molecular Detection and Differentiation of Theileria lestoquardi, T. ovis and T. annulata in Blood of Goats and Ticks in Kermanshah Province, Iran
... base. Ixodid ticks were manually collected from the body surface of examined animals by rubbing alcohol pads surrounding the skin to remove embedded liv- ing ticks ...hard ticks were placed ...
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PCR-based Detection of Babesia spp. Infection in Collected Ticks from Cattle in West and North-West of Iran.
... infected ticks and is the most economically important tick-borne disease in tropical and subtropical ...areas. Ixodid ticks are vectors in the transmission of ...vector ticks collected from ...
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Circulation of four Anaplasma phagocytophilum ecotypes in Europe
... Before the considerable sequence variation between and within ecotype I and II in the groEL gene (Figure 1) could be used to address their population dynamics, sev- eral statistical tests were performed to address the ...
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