The hard ticks of the world

AA Guglielmone, RG Robbins, DA Apanaskevich… - Springer …, 2014 - Springer
The hard tick family Ixodidae currently comprises over 700 species worldwide, but
information on types, developmental stages, distribution and hosts is scattered and often …

Tick-borne infectious diseases in Australia

SR Graves, J Stenos - The Medical Journal of Australia, 2017 - mja.com.au
Tick-borne infectious diseases in Australia | The Medical Journal of Australia MJA Basic Search
Advanced search search Use the Advanced search for more specific terms. Title contains Body …

Assessment of bacterial diversity in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplusthrough tag-encoded pyrosequencing

R Andreotti, AA Pérez de León, SE Dowd… - BMC microbiology, 2011 - Springer
Background Ticks are regarded as the most relevant vectors of disease-causing pathogens
in domestic and wild animals. The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, hinders …

Rickettsia species in ticks that parasitize amphibians and reptiles: Novel report from Mexico and review of the worldwide record

S Sánchez-Montes, AB Isaak-Delgado… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites that are associated with a wide range of
vertebrate hosts, among them also reptiles and amphibians. They have dynamic ecological …

Molecular detection of vector-borne agents in ectoparasites and reptiles from Brazil

JA Mendoza-Roldan, SR Ribeiro… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trombidiformes and Mesostigmata mites, as well as Ixodida ticks, infest ectothermic
tetrapods worldwide, potentially acting as vectors of bacteria, viruses and protozoa. The …

Molecular evidence of potential novel spotted fever group rickettsiae, Anaplasma and Ehrlichia species in Amblyomma ticks parasitizing wild snakes

KL Kho, FX Koh, ST Tay - Parasites & Vectors, 2015 - Springer
Background Amblyomma ticks parasitize a wide range of animals in tropical regions. This
study describes the identification of Amblyomma ticks from wild snakes in Malaysia and the …

Rickettsia spp. and Ehrlichia spp. in Amblyomma ticks parasitizing wild amphibious sea kraits and yellow-margined box turtles in Okinawa, Japan

Y Qiu, N Kidera, M Hayashi, K Fujishima… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, several tick-borne pathogens were detected in reptile-associated ticks. However,
studies on the microorganisms in reptile-associated ticks in Japan are limited. This …

Bacterial community profiling highlights complex diversity and novel organisms in wildlife ticks

SL Egan, SM Loh, PB Banks, A Gillett… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Ticks Acari: Ixodida transmit a greater variety of pathogens than any other blood-
feeding group of arthropods. While numerous microbes have been identified inhabiting …

The bacterial biome of ticks and their wildlife hosts at the urban–wildland interface

SL Egan, CL Taylor, PB Banks… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Advances in sequencing technologies have revealed the complex and diverse microbial
communities present in ticks (Ixodida). As obligate blood-feeding arthropods, ticks are …

Characterization of a novel transitional group Rickettsia species (Rickettsia tillamookensis sp. nov.) from the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus

DT Gauthier, SE Karpathy… - … of Systematic and …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
A previously unrecognized Rickettsia species was isolated in 1976 from a pool of Ixodes
pacificus ticks collected in 1967 from Tillamook County, Oregon, USA. The isolate produced …