that cause piroplasmosis in animals and occasionally in humans. Little is known about piroplasms in the ticks of urban wildlife in Australia. Ticks from long-nosed bandicoots (Perameles nasuta; n = 71), eastern-barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii; n = 41), northern-brown bandicoots...
Roe deer copiparvovirus (RdPV, Ungulate copiparvovirus 3) DNA was identified through metagenomic sequencing ofIxodes ricinusticks and European roe deer in Belgium [198]. The RdPV genome encodes for two putative ORFs and itsNSgene has 55% nucleotide identity to BPV2, its closest relative. Import...
Ticks morphologically conform to H. lemuris, but genetic analysis showed a clear differentiation of the specimens collected in this study, suggesting a potentially new tick species. Host body mass decreased from the early to the late dry season, indicating nutritional stress during this period, ...
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Pests can therefore be described as any animal at any stage of its life cycle that may reasonably cause biological/physical contamination to food or its presence will be detrimental to its wholesomeness, and include small mammals (e.g. black and brown rats and mice), crawling insects (e.g....
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The individual and mean dependencies of flexor muscle force and torque on position, velocity and movement amplitude were used in MATLAB to plot the 2 and 3D figures (Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, and S6). Color sets were optimized for color-blindness [72, 73, 74]. Plot labels, ticks etc. wer...
A survey of ixodid ticks feeding on cattle and prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Vet Parasitol. 2012;187(3–4):567–71. 26. Aktas M, Ozubek S. Bovine anaplasmosis in Turkey: first laboratory confirmed clinical cases caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum. ...
It is desirable to collect ticks on the pastures of the small ruminant flock for direct virus detection. However, this is labour-intensive, expensive and is of little success despite the occurrence of seropositive animals [19,29] and acquired human infections [29,30]. Therefore, weekly ...
(questing) for vertebrate hosts like humans to which they could attach. In an initial 1986-1987 trial in Massachusetts, tick tubes were dispersed in selected residential yards and not in others. In both years, the number of ticks on captured mice was greatly reduced in treated yards; more...