Transmission cycle of tick-borne infections and co-infections, animal models and diseases

SC Rocha, CV Velásquez, A Aquib, A Al-Nazal… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne pathogens such as species of Borrelia, Babesia, Anaplasma, Rickettsia, and
Ehrlichia are widespread in the United States and Europe among wildlife, in passerines as …

[HTML][HTML] Hard ticks as vectors: the emerging threat of tick-borne diseases in India

N Perumalsamy, R Sharma, M Subramanian… - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hard ticks (Ixodidae) play a critical role in transmitting various tick-borne diseases (TBDs),
posing significant global threats to human and animal health. Climatic factors influence the …

Metatranscriptomic profiling reveals diverse tick‐borne bacteria, protozoans and viruses in ticks and wildlife from Australia

AW Gofton, KR Blasdell, C Taylor… - Transboundary and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tick‐borne zoonoses are emerging globally due to changes in climate and land use. While
the zoonotic threats associated with ticks are well studied elsewhere, in Australia, the …

Novel symbionts and potential human pathogens excavated from argasid tick microbiomes that are shaped by dual or single symbiosis

MAM Moustafa, WMA Mohamed, ACC Lau… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research on vector-associated microbiomes has been expanding due to increasing
emergence of vector-borne pathogens and awareness of the importance of symbionts in the …

Microbiome and mitogenomics of the chigger mite Pentidionis agamae: potential role as an Orientia vector and associations with divergent clades of Wolbachia and …

HA Alkathiry, SQ Alghamdi, A Sinha, G Margos… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Trombiculid mites are globally distributed, highly diverse arachnids that largely
lack molecular resources such as whole mitogenomes for the elucidation of taxonomic …

The troublesome ticks research protocol: develo** a comprehensive, multidiscipline research plan for investigating human tick-associated disease in Australia

AD Barbosa, M Long, W Lee, JM Austen, M Cunneen… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
In Australia, there is a paucity of data about the extent and impact of zoonotic tick-related
illnesses. Even less is understood about a multifaceted illness referred to as Debilitating …

Associations between wildlife observations, human-tick encounters and landscape features in a peri-urban tick hotspot

CL Taylor, HW Lydecker, DF Hochuli, PB Banks - Urban Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Zoonotic disease vectors, their wildlife hosts, and the surrounding landscape interact in
complex ways that vary spatially, temporally and with anthropogenic change. Ticks (Acari …

Metagenomic profile of the bacterial communities associated with Ixodes granulatus (Acari: Ixodidae): a potential vector of tick-borne diseases

EF Che Lah, M Ahamad, A Dmitry… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ixodes granulatus Supino, 1897 (Acari: Ixodida) is one of Malaysia's most common
hard ticks and is a potential vector for tick-borne diseases (TBDs). Despite its great public …

Molecular analysis of human tick-bitten skin yields signatures associated with distinct spatial and temporal trajectories-A proof-of-concept study

W Lee, R Ben-Othman, P Skut, AHY Lee, AD Barbosa… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Tick-associated diseases present challenges due to tridirectional interactions among host-
specific responses, tick toxins and salivary proteins as well as microbes. We aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial community of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and mammals from Arauca, Colombian Orinoquia

PA Ossa-López, HE Ramírez-Chaves… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites of vertebrates and are relevant worldwide
due to the number of bacterial and other pathogens they can transmit. To date, the …