A review of reverse vaccinology approaches for the development of vaccines against ticks and tick borne diseases

AE Lew-Tabor, MR Valle - Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2016 - Elsevier
The field of reverse vaccinology developed as an outcome of the genome sequence
revolution. Following the introduction of live vaccinations in the western world by Edward …

Acaricide resistance mechanisms in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

FD Guerrero, L Lovis, JR Martins - Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia …, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
Acaricide resistance has become widespread in countries where cattle ticks, Rhipicephalus
(Boophilus) microplus, are a problem. Resistance arises through genetic changes in a cattle …

Strategies for new and improved vaccines against ticks and tick‐borne diseases

J de la Fuente, P Kopáček, A Lew‐Tabor… - Parasite …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ticks infest a variety of animal species and transmit pathogens causing disease in both
humans and animals worldwide. Tick–host–pathogen interactions have evolved through …

Cattle tick vaccines: many candidate antigens, but will a commercially viable product emerge?

FD Guerrero, RJ Miller, AAP de León - International Journal for Parasitology, 2012 - Elsevier
The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, is arguably the world's most economically important
external parasite of cattle. Sustainable cattle tick control strategies are required to maximise …

Bovine babesiosis in the 21st century: advances in biology and functional genomics

S Gohil, S Herrmann, S Günther, BM Cooke - International Journal for …, 2013 - Elsevier
Bovine babesiosis caused by the protozoan parasite, Babesia bovis, remains a significant
cause of avoidable economic losses to the livestock industry in many countries throughout …

Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus aquaporin as an effective vaccine antigen to protect against cattle tick infestations

FD Guerrero, R Andreotti, KG Bendele, RC Cunha… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background Vaccination as a control method against the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus
(Boophilus) microplus has been practiced since the introduction of two products in the mid …

The quest for a universal vaccine against ticks: cross-immunity insights

LF Parizi, NW Githaka, C Logullo, S Konnai… - The Veterinary …, 2012 - Elsevier
As blood-sucking parasites, ticks inflict great damage to animals and humans in many parts
of the world. The continued use of chemical acaricides is not sustainable due to increasing …

[HTML][HTML] De novo Ixodes ricinus salivary gland transcriptome analysis using two next-generation sequencing methodologies

A Schwarz, BM von Reumont, J Erhart… - The FASEB …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tick salivary gland (SG) proteins possess powerful pharmacologic properties that facilitate
tick feeding and pathogen transmission. For the first time, SG transcriptomes of Ixodes …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-antigenic vaccine against the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus: a field evaluation

LF Parizi, J Reck Jr, DP Oldiges, MG Guizzo, A Seixas… - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
The tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is a blood-sucking ectoparasite of cattle that
severely impairs livestock production. Studies on tick immunological control address mostly …

Yabi: An online research environment for grid, high performance and cloud computing

AA Hunter, AB Macgregor, TO Szabo… - Source code for biology …, 2012 - Springer
Background There is a significant demand for creating pipelines or workflows in the life
science discipline that chain a number of discrete compute and data intensive analysis tasks …