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Med Vet Entomol 2021 Jan 16. Epub 2021 Jan 16.

Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt.

Ticks are important vectors of emerging health problems in humans and animals. We conducted several field surveillances to investigate the fauna of hard ticks on domestic animals in seven governorates of Egypt during 2018-2019. A total of 3265 individual tick specimens were collected and identified to the species level; the specimens belong to 11 species within three genera (Amblyomma, Hyalomma, and Rhipicephalus). Read More

Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2021 03 23;12(2):101609. Epub 2020 Nov 23.

UMR BIPAR, INRAE, ANSES, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Université Paris-Est, Maisons-Alfort, 94700, France. Electronic address:

Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) pose a major threat to human health in Europe and the whole northern hemisphere. Despite a high prevalence of TBPs in Ixodes ricinus ticks, knowledge on the incidence of tick-borne diseases in humans infested by this tick species is limited. This study was conducted in the year 2019 on patients who presented themselves to the Pasteur Institute Novi Sad with tick infestations. Read More

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2020 Nov 23;104(22):9631-9643. Epub 2020 Sep 23.

Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA-CONICET), Los Reseros y Nicolas Repetto s/n (1686), Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Woody biomass represents an important source of carbon on earth, and its global recycling is highly dependent on Agaricomycetes fungi. White-rot Basidiomycetes are a very important group in this regard, as they possess a large and diverse enzymatic repertoire for biomass decomposition. Among these enzymes, the recently discovered lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) have revolutionized biomass processing with their novel oxidative mechanism of action. Read More

Genomics 2021 Jan 2;113(1 Pt 2):429-439. Epub 2020 Sep 2.

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, People's Republic of China. Electronic address:

Decapoda is one of the most diverse crustacean orders, and has become an important research subject. However, the phylogenetic relationships among the main lineages of Decapoda remain uncertain, especially in the order Brachyura. Herein, we sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of V. Read More

J Proteomics 2020 10 14;229:103899. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Tick salivary glands secrete a complex saliva into their hosts which modulates vertebrate hemostasis, immunity and tissue repair mechanisms. Transcriptomic studies revealed a large number of transcripts coding for structural and secreted protein products in a single tick species. These transcripts are organized in several large families according to their products. Read More

DNA Res 2020 Apr;27(2)

INRAE, UMR1163, Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Fungi, Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.

White-rot (WR) fungi are pivotal decomposers of dead organic matter in forest ecosystems and typically use a large array of hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes to deconstruct lignocellulose. However, the extent of lignin and cellulose degradation may vary between species and wood type. Here, we combined comparative genomics, transcriptomics and secretome proteomics to identify conserved enzymatic signatures at the onset of wood-decaying activity within the Basidiomycota genus Pycnoporus. Read More

J Appl Microbiol 2020 Nov 27;129(5):1410-1418. Epub 2020 May 27.

Fujian Engineering and Research Center for Microbial Techniques of Hongqu, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Screening for Novel Microbial Products, Fujian Institute of Microbiology, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.

Aims: Red yeast rice (RYR), produced by inoculating Monascus strains to steamed rice, contains many kinds of physiologically bioactive compounds, among which monacolin K can be used as an antihypercholesterolaemic agent. However, RYR can be polluted by the mycotoxin citrinin, which has nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic activities. To avoid the risk of citrinin contamination in Monascus fermented products, it is important to screen for Monascus strains that produce no or low citrinin. Read More

Parasitol Res 2020 May 7;119(5):1573-1582. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

Grupo de Investigación GEBIOME, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 No. 26-10 Apartado Aéreo 275 Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.

The systematics of several ticks species (Acari: Ixodidae) remains controversial. Many species, including those of the Amblyomma cajennense complex and Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. Read More

Front Physiol 2019 16;10:793. Epub 2019 Jul 16.

Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Although ticks prevalent in various agro-systems of Pakistan are associated with economic losses, information is still missing about the tick's diversity, hosts they infest, seasonal dynamics and molecular phylogeny of in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pakistan. This study for the first time enlisted ticks infesting diverse hosts including humans in various regions of KP. A total of 8,641 ticks were collected across the northern, southern and central regions of KP and were morpho-taxonomically categorized into six genera comprising 17 species, ( = 3,584, 42%), ( = 2,253, 27%) ( = 1,342, 16%), ( = 586, 7%) ( = 161, 2%), ( = 142, 2%), ( = 132, 2%), ( = 123, 1. Read More

PLoS One 2019 19;14(3):e0213384. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

Center for Rickettsiosis and Arthropod-Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitario San Pedro-Center for Biomedical Research from La Rioja (CIBIR), Logroño, Spain.

Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize the bacterial microbiome of hard ticks with affinity to bite humans in La Rioja (North of Spain).

Methods: A total of 88 adult ticks (22 Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato, 27 Haemaphysalis punctata, 30 Dermacentor marginatus and 9 Ixodes ricinus) and 120 I. ricinus nymphs (CRETAV collection, La Rioja, Spain), representing the main anthropophilic species in our environment, were subjected to a metagenomic analysis of the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene using an Illumina MiSeq platform. Read More

Parasit Vectors 2019 Jan 11;12(1):26. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens 1 (ZBS 1), Robert Koch Institute, 13353, Berlin, Germany.

Background: Ticks participate as arthropod vectors in the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to humans. Several tick-borne infections have reemerged, along with newly described agents of unexplored pathogenicity. In an attempt to expand current information on tick-associated bacteria and protozoans, we performed a cross-sectional screening of ticks, using next-generation sequencing. Read More

J Parasit Dis 2018 Jun 23;42(2):287-290. Epub 2018 Apr 23.

Department of Veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Thrissur, Kerala 680651 India.

India has a wide range of agro-climatic zones which is highly conducive for a diverse range of vectors and canines are continuously exposed to the risk of spectrum of tick borne protozoan diseases. The brown dog tick, is widely prevalent among dogs in Kerala and there is a high prevalence of this tick transmitted and spp. infection. Read More

Toxicon 2018 Jun 27;148:165-171. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

Laboratory of Tumor Biomarkers and Osteoimmunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.

Cancer is one of the most troubling diseases and is becoming increasingly common. Breast cancer has a high cure rate when diagnosed early, but when diagnosed late, treatment is frequently painful, devastating and unsuccessful. The search for new treatments that are more effective and less harmful has led to several substances and biomolecules from plants and animals with potential anti-tumor activity. Read More

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2018 03 16;18(3):151-163. Epub 2018 Jan 16.

1 School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University , North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia .

Central Queensland (CQ) is a large and isolated, low population density, remote tropical region of Australia with a varied environment. The region has a diverse fauna and several species of ticks that feed upon that fauna. This study examined 518 individual ticks: 177 Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick), 123 Haemaphysalis bancrofti (wallaby tick), 102 Rhipicephalus australis (Australian cattle tick), 47 Amblyomma triguttatum (ornate kangaroo tick), 57 Ixodes holocyclus (paralysis tick), 9 Bothriocroton tachyglossi (CQ short-beaked echidna tick), and 3 Ornithodoros capensis (seabird soft tick). Read More

Parasitol Int 2018 Apr 31;67(2):150-158. Epub 2017 Oct 31.

Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, 3720 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; Department of Global Health, University of South Florida, 3720 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. Electronic address:

Aporocotylidae comprises a diverse family of fish blood flukes, with adults found in blood or body cavity of marine, brackish, or freshwater fish. Aporocotylids are unique among the Digenea with many developing in polychaetes. The life cycle has been elucidated for only a few species that develop in polychaetes from marine/brackish environments and none for western Atlantic aporocotylids. Read More

Biol Invasions 2017 Apr;19(4):1153-1168

Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA.

, the Asian shore crab, has rapidly replaced , the green crab, as the most abundant crab on rocky shores in the northwest Atlantic since its introduction to the United States (USA) in 1988. The northern edge of this progressing invasion is the Gulf of Maine, where Asian shore crabs are only abundant in the south. We compared population densities to those from published 2005 surveys and quantified genetic variation using the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene. Read More

J Biol Chem 2017 09 4;292(38):15670-15680. Epub 2017 Aug 4.

From the Infection and Immunity Program, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and

To prolong residence on their hosts, ticks secrete many salivary factors that target host defense molecules. In particular, the tick has been shown to produce three salivary glycoproteins named "evasins," which bind to host chemokines, thereby inhibiting the recruitment of leukocytes to the location of the tick bite. Using sequence similarity searches, we have identified 257 new putative evasin sequences encoded by the genomes or salivary or visceral transcriptomes of numerous hard ticks, spanning the genera , , and of the Ixodidae family. Read More

Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2016 Feb 17;7(1):150-153. Epub 2015 Oct 17.

Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

The diverse tick fauna as well as the abundance of tick populations in Romania represent potential risks for both human and animal health. Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae are recognized as important agents of emerging human tick-borne diseases worldwide. However, the epidemiology of rickettsial diseases has been poorly investigated in Romania. Read More

Exp Appl Acarol 2015 Jun 27;66(2):269-80. Epub 2015 Feb 27.

Unit of Veterinary Entomology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Insititute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium,

In total 7657 ticks were collected from 121 dip tanks in 12 districts representative of Zimbabwe's five ecological regions between September 2013 and May 2014. Based on morphological traits four genera and 13 species of ticks were identified. Amblyomma hebraeum (60. Read More

Gene 2015 Jun 13;564(2):125-33. Epub 2015 Jan 13.

State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Grazing Animal Diseases MOA, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Lanzhou, Gansu 730046, China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, 225009, P. R. China; NERC/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Wallingford, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8BB, UK. Electronic address:

Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum (H.a. anatolicum) (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks are globally distributed ectoparasites with veterinary and medical importance. Read More

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2014 Sep 20;21(17):10120-8. Epub 2014 May 20.

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia,

Ectoparasitic arthropods are a diverse element of the Saudi fauna. Due to this, a survey of ectoparasites associated with rodents was conducted as a preliminary study in five districts of Hail region of northern Saudi Arabia for the first time. Ectoparasites extracted from 750 rodents were sampled and identified by recording their frequency of appearance. Read More

Rev Bras Parasitol Vet 2013 Jan-Mar;22(1):46-52. Epub 2013 Mar 8.

We report tick infestations on birds, in the environment and on domestic animals in a non-forested phytophysiognomy, the savanna-like Cerrado sensu stricto, in a natural reserve on the outskirts of the urban area of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Overall, 238 birds within 50 species, 15 families and six orders were caught. Passeriformes were the most numerous, with 216 birds (90. Read More

Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2012 Sep;43(5):1186-92

Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, USA.

In order to access the prevalence of Bartonella species in dogs, whole blood and any associated ectoparasites were collected from 164 dogs with owners in 25 villages throughout Khon Kaen Province. DNA was extracted from dog blood, 92 ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) and 137 fleas (Ctenocephalides spp) and screened by PCR using intergenic spacer region and citrate synthase gene primers. B. Read More

Vet Parasitol 2013 Sep 29;196(1-2):71-6. Epub 2013 Jan 29.

Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania.

The aim of the present study was to provide a preliminary insight into the diversity of tick-borne pathogens circulating at the domestic host-tick interface in Romania. For this, feeding and questing ticks were analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Anaplasma platys, Ehrlichia canis, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu latu, and by PCR and subsequent sequencing for Rickettsia spp., Babesia spp. Read More

Rev Bras Parasitol Vet 2008 Sep;17 Suppl 1:18-23

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.

The vaccination represents optimum method evaluated with effective cost to prevent economic losses and to increase the duration and quality of life of the production animals. . Diverse vaccines are produced from the intestinal protein Bm86 of the Rhipicephalus. Read More

Vet Parasitol 2005 Mar 21;128(1-2):149-55. Epub 2004 Dec 21.

Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 486, Avenida Antônio Carlos, 6627, Campus UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, CEP 31270-901, Brazil.

The vectorial competence of the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus is discussed in relation to the epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniasis, taking into account its strict association with dogs and the low indices of natural infection presented by its known vector, the phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis. In order to evaluate natural infection by Leishmania chagasi and the infectivity of these parasites in the tick, 39 specimens (6 females, 11 males and 22 nymphs) of R. sanguineus were removed from 21 dogs showing diverse symptoms of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL). Read More

J Clin Microbiol 2003 Feb;41(2):886-8

Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1093, USA.

Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks transmit Ehrlichia canis, the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis. In experimentally infected ticks, only p30-10 transcript was detected among 22 p30 paralogs encoding immunodominant major outer membrane P30 proteins of E. canis. Read More

Oecologia 1994 Jun;98(1):15-24

Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus and allies) are perceived to be dominant members of Australian ant communities because of their great abundance, high rates of activity, and extreme aggressiveness. Here we describe the first experimental test of their influence on other ant species, and one of the first experimental studies of the influence of a dominant species on any diverse ant community. The study was conducted at a 0. Read More

J Immunol 1981 Nov;127(5):2163-7

Resistance to infestation by larval Amblyomma americanum or Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks was transferred to naive guinea pigs with peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) or serum from donors immunized by prior infestation with homologous tick larvae. In the A. americanum system, PEC transfer induced 87% tick rejection, which was similar to the level of resistance in actively sensitized hosts. Read More