The ecology of new constituents of the tick virome and their relevance to public health

KJ Vandegrift, A Kapoor - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ticks are vectors of several pathogens that can be transmitted to humans and their
geographic ranges are expanding. The exposure of ticks to new hosts in a rapidly changing …

Tick virome diversity in Hubei Province, China, and the influence of host ecology

L Xu, M Guo, B Hu, H Zhou, W Yang, L Hui… - Virus …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ticks are important vector hosts of pathogens which cause human and animal diseases
worldwide. Diverse viruses have been discovered in ticks; however, little is known about the …

Virome of Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor reticulatus, and Haemaphysalis concinna Ticks from Croatia

S Sameroff, R Tokarz, M Vucelja, K Jain, A Oleynik… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne diseases are a serious threat to both public and veterinary health. In this study,
we used high-throughput sequencing to characterize the virome of three tick species …

Metavirome of 31 tick species provides a compendium of 1,801 RNA virus genomes

XB Ni, XM Cui, JY Liu, RZ Ye, YQ Wu, JF Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The increasing prevalence and expanding distribution of tick-borne viruses globally have
raised health concerns, but the full repertoire of the tick virome has not been assessed. We …

[HTML][HTML] Virome analysis of three Ixodidae ticks species from Colombia: A potential strategy for discovering and surveying tick-borne viruses

MO Orozco, GF Gómez, JF Alzate, JP Isaza… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ticks are a group of obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites that play a critical role in
transmitting several important zoonotic pathogens that can infect animals and humans …

Diversity of Viruses in Ixodes ricinus in Europe including Novel and Potential Arboviruses

BE Bratuleanu, C Răileanu, A Bennouna… - Transboundary and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tick‐borne pathogens are responsible for many vector‐borne diseases in Europe, causing
important problems for human and animal health. The composition of viral communities in …

The virome of Rhipicephalus, Dermacentor and Haemaphysalis ticks from Eastern Romania includes novel viruses with potential relevance for public health

BE Bratuleanu, S Temmam, D Chretien… - Transboundary and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ticks are involved in the transmission of various pathogens and several tick‐borne diseases
cause significant problems for the health of humans and livestock. The composition of viral …

Virome analysis of Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis ticks reveals novel highly divergent vertebrate and invertebrate viruses

R Tokarz, SH Williams, S Sameroff… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been identified in ticks, yet the
diversity of viruses in ticks is largely unexplored. In the United States, Amblyomma …

Metatranscriptomics reveals the diversity of the tick virome in Northwest China

Y Kong, G Zhang, L Jiang, P Wang, S Zhang… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Blood-sucking ticks are obligate parasites and vectors of a variety of human and animal
viruses. Some tick-borne viruses have been identified as pathogens of infectious diseases in …

Virome of Rhipicephalus ticks by metagenomic analysis in Guangdong, southern China

L Guo, J Ma, J Lin, M Chen, W Liu, J Zha, Q Jin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tick-borne viruses (TBVs) have increasingly caused a global public health concern. This
study collected Rhipicephalus ticks in Guangdong, southern China to identify RNA viruses …