The amoeba moves by continually changing its body shape, forming extensions called pseudopods (false feet) into which its body then flows. The pseudopods also are used to surround and capture food—mainly bacteria, algae, and other protozoa—from the surrounding water. An opening in the ...
Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, is an aggressive questing species that harbors several pathogens dangerous to humans in the United States. The Southeast in particular has large numbers of this tick due to the combined suitable climate and habit
The pathogen-containing faeces excreted by the triatomines can enter the human body through a skin wound or the mucosa, causing infection. Studies have shown that T. cruzi, Serratia marcescens, Mycobacterium leprae, HIV and HBV can be transmitted to humans through triatomine faeces [44,45,46...
Agricultural expansion negatively impacts the occupancy of wild felid communities across human-modified landscapes [31,32], and these adverse anthropogenic factors may in turn influence their respective parasite communities. Thus, more frequent domestic animal–human–wildlife interface favors a plethora of...
non-severe bilateral ocular discharge, ECPs attributable to mallophages (Melophagus rupicaprinus), and ticks (Ixodes ricinus) (Figure 2A); the skin lesions were positive for ORFV (Figure S2) without any secondary bacterial infection and the histological examinations showed the same pictures as in...
The cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, is a vector of pathogens causative of babesiosis and anaplasmosis, both highly lethal bovine diseases that affect cattle worldwide. In Ecdysozoa, neuropeptides and their G-protein-coupled recept