Flattery, A McKiernan, F Browne, J Gray, J Zaid, T O'Connor, J Zintl, A
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Despite the economic importance of grass-based livestock production in Ireland and the fact that many veterinarians and farmers regard tickborne fever (TBF) as an increasingly important disease, especially in sheep, little is currently known about the prevalence and genetic diversity of its causative agent, Anaplasma phagocytophilum. In the present...
Beck, Alyssa Bjork, Jenna Biggerstaff, Brad J Eisen, Lars Eisen, Rebecca Foster, Erik Signs, Kimberly Tsao, Jean I Kough, Erin Peterson, Molly
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Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are a major public health threat in the Upper Midwestern United States, including Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. To prevent tick bites and tick-borne diseases, public health officials commonly recommend personal protective measures and property management techniques. Adoption of tick-borne disease pre...
Jouglin, M Rispe, C Grech-Angelini, S Gallois, M Malandrin, L
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Anaplasmosis is a tick-transmitted disease due to several species of the genus Anaplasma. In 2019, we demonstrated the presence of Anaplasma capra in two deer species at a zoological park in mainland France. As we suspected its presence in Corsica, we surveyed 11 geographically distant sheep or goat farms. Using molecular tools such as nested PCR t...
Igolkina, Yana Rar, Vera Yakimenko, Valeriy Tikunov, Artem Tikunova, Nina
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The spotted fever group is the largest group in the Rickettsia genus, and new candidate species of this group are found throughout the world. "Candidatus Rickettsia thierseensis" was observed in a single Ixodes ricinus in Austria in 2020. However, sequences of five genes (total length: 5305 bp) of the "Candidatus R. thierseensis" were nearly identi...
Clift, Sarah J Steyl, Johan C A Mitchell, Emily P Lawrence, John A Hooijberg, Emma H
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Perera, Ana Silveira, Diogo Graciá, Eva Giménez, Andrés James Harris, D
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Tortoise ticks, Hyalomma aegyptium, are considered so strongly associated with their hosts that they are even used as indirect indicators for them. In such a case, a robust pattern of congruence between host and parasite could be expected, with phylogeographic breaks within the host being reflected in their parasites. We sequenced two mitochondrial...
Bord, Séverine Dernat, Sylvain Ouillon, Laetitia René-Martellet, Magalie Vourc'h, Gwenaël Lesens, Olivier Forestier, Christiane Lebert, Isabelle
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The most prevalent vector-borne diseases in Europe are caused by tick-borne pathogens, such as bacteria of the genus Borrelia that cause Lyme borreliosis. In this context, retail pharmacists are frequently the first medical source of information in the event of a tick bite. The objective of this study was to assess pharmacy professionals' knowledge...
Igolkina, Yana Rar, Vera Krasnova, Elena Filimonova, Eugenia Tikunov, Artem Epikhina, Tamara Tikunova, Nina
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Rickettsia sibirica subsp. sibirica is a main agent of tick-borne rickettsioses in Western Siberia, Russia. Recently, the first cases of Rickettsia raoultii infection in patients hospitalized in Novosibirsk Province were described. The aim of this study was to establish the etiologic agents of tick-borne rickettsioses in Western Siberia during thre...
Lima-Duarte, Leidiane Castro-Santiago, Ana Carolina Camargo, Jaqueline Valéria Ferretti, Ana Beatriz Stein Machado Anholeto, Luís Adriano Pereira, Melissa Carolina Ikeda, Priscila Perez, Carlos Alberto Sanches, Gustavo Seron Camargo-Mathias, Maria Izabel
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The establishment and characterization of the ASE-14 cell line derived from embryos of Amblyomma sculptum is described here. Primary cultures were started, and after 60 days of culturing a confluent monolayer was formed and the first subculture was then carried out. After this, new subcultures were carried out every 4 weeks. Cryopreservation of cel...
Kerstholt, Mariska Brouwer, Michelle Te Vrugt, Marcel Oosting, Marije Netea, Mihai G Joosten, Leo A B
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Redox metabolism is crucial in host defense. Previously, it was shown that Borrelia burgdorferi induces the antioxidative metabolism in primary human monocytes. In this study, we explore how B. burgdorferi affects the anti-oxidative arm of redox metabolism, i.e. the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PB...
