Tick vector
The abundance of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia afzelii declines over time in the tick vector Ixodes ricinus
... nymphal tick following the larva-to-nymph moult was low (~300 spirochetes) [26, 32], suggesting that it was constant over ...its tick vector, ...nymphal tick follow- ing the larva-to-nymph ...
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Lyme disease bacterium does not affect attraction to rodent odour in the tick vector
... Many tick species appear to be generalists that feed on a wide range of vertebrate hosts ...generalist tick species has important conse- quences for the ecology of tick-borne pathogens and the human ...
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Ornithodoros savingyi – the tick vector of Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica in Nigeria
... Ornithodoros savingyi – the tick vector of Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica in 1 Nigeria 2 Sally J Cutlera, Jibrin M Idrisb, Akeem O Ahmedc and Nusirat Eleluc 3 aUniversity of East London, Stratford, Lo[.] ...
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The tick endosymbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and selenoproteins are essential for the growth of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick vector
... a tick vector are col- lectively called the tick microbiome; however, the collec- tion of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microbes associated with ticks are more specifically termed the ...wood ...
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Is selenoprotein K required for Borrelia burgdorferi infection within the tick vector Ixodes scapularis?
... a tick-pathogen model has shown that the initial stage of transmission of a pathogen by an arthro- pod vector is influenced by gene expression changes in both vectors and pathogens ...the ...
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Identification of immune responsive protein epitopes in theileria parva and the tick vector rhipicephalus appendiculatus
... the vector, involves the production of proteins by the parasite during the various life cycle stages, as well as by the tick ...the tick and they maybe used as stand-alone vaccines or part of a ...
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Phylogeographic analysis reveals association of tick-borne pathogen, Anaplasma marginale, MSP1a sequences with ecological traits affecting tick vector performance
... The tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma marginale, which is endemic worldwide, is the type species of the genus Anaplasma (Rickettsiales: ...important tick vector of ...in vector- pathogen and ...
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Ornithodoros savignyi, the Tick Vector of “Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica” in Nigeria
... Endemic tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) has not been documented in Nigeria, yet clinically compatible cases have been described, and soft tick species are endemic in surrounding ...soft tick pools ...
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Global transcriptional analysis reveals surface remodeling of Anaplasma marginale in the tick vector
... in tick cell culture, with the exception of msp2, msp4 and ...in tick cell culture consist- ent with other members of its operon and the msp2 homolog in ...arthropod vector [20]. Msp2 variants ...
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Implications of climate change on the distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and risk for Lyme disease in the Texas Mexico transboundary region
... (DIN) [56,57]. Under this scenario southern US states were portrayed as a low risk region given the non-appearance of host seeking I. scapularis nymphs at sampled sites [56,57]. Worth noting is that southern states had ...
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Regional level risk factors associated with the occurrence of African swine fever in West and East Africa
... To investigate the role of the sylvatic cycle, we also tested the effect of the distribution of the tick vector O. moubata on ASF spread at the regional scale. O. mou- bata is considered to be an important ...
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Prevalence and molecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in Ixodes granulatus ticks collected from Rattus losea on Kinmen Island of Taiwan
... hard tick of I. granulatus was presumed to be the tick vector for the enzoonotic transmission of Borrelia spirochetes in the Taiwan area [21], the prevalence of infection and genetic diversity of ...
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Dynamics of Dissemination and Outer Surface Protein Expression of Different European Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Strains in Artificially Infected Ixodes ricinus Nymphs
... during tick engorgement re- vealed that dissemination of borreliae in the vector and infec- tivity for the mammalian host coincide with the up-regulation of this protein on the borrelial surface (7, 8, 18, ...
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Comparison of the lifetime host to tick transmission between two strains of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia afzelii
... If strain A10 has higher lifetime transmission success than strain A3, what allows strain A3 to persist in na- ture? One possible explanation is the hypothesis of mul- tiple niche polymorphism (MNP), which suggests that ...
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Seven challenges for modelling indirect transmission: Vector-borne diseases, macroparasites and neglected tropical diseases
... multiple vector species) contributing to transmission – the spillover FOI is still a useful concept for quantifying human risk; however, an under- standing of how transmission is maintained within and between the ...
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Larvae of Ixodes ricinus transmit Borrelia afzelii and B miyamotoi to vertebrate hosts
... Larvae of I. ricinus were captured at five locations (Buunderkamp, Grebbeberg, Sysselt, Bilderberg and Planken Wambuis) near Wageningen, The Netherlands (Table 1). All larvae were captured in June-September 2014 within 2 ...
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Comparison of selected canine vector borne diseases between urban animal shelter and rural hunting dogs in Korea
... While infection status of the mosquito-transmitted D. immitis infection was relatively high in both hunting and stray dogs, the tick-borne pathogens were present only in hunting dogs. Two factors may be involved ...
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Expression of Equi Merozoite Antigen 2 during Development of Babesia equi in the Midgut and Salivary Gland of the Vector Tick Boophilus microplus
... Following nymphal acquisition feeding, we tested whether EMA-1 and EMA-2 were expressed during the development of B. equi within Boophilus microplus nymphs. Partially fed nymphs harvested on days 9 through 15 ...
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Functional RNA Structures in the 3'UTR of Tick-Borne, Insect-Specific and No-Known-Vector Flaviviruses
... and tick-borne flaviviruses (TBFVs) spread between vertebrate (mammals and birds) and invertebrate (mosquitoes and ticks) hosts, whereas insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFVs) replicate specifically in mosquitoes ...
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Small risk of developing symptomatic tick borne diseases following a tick bite in the Netherlands
... the tick or substances it secreted into the ...excreted tick pro- teins and also due to pathogens [37]. Timely removal of a tick is therefore a major factor to reduce transmission of potentially ...
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