The demand for animal products (eg dairy and beef) in tropical regions is expected to
increase in parallel with the public demand for sustainable practices, due to factors such as …

Ticks are the most important ancient group of obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of
terrestrial vertebrates mainly of livestock. These small-sized animals are found in tropical …

Diseases induced by obligate intracellular pathogens have a large burden on global human
and animal health. Understanding the factors involved in the virulence and fitness of these …

Unraveling which proteins and post-translational modifications (PTMs) affect bacterial
pathogenesis and physiology in diverse environments is a tough challenge. Herein, we …

The use of bioinformatics tools to search for possible vaccine candidates has been
successful in recent years. In an attempt to search for additional vaccine candidates or …

The tick-borne rickettsial pathogen, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, causes monocytic ehrlichiosis in
people and other vertebrate hosts. Mutational analysis in E. chaffeensis genome aids in …

The Rickettsiales Ehrlichia ruminantium, the causal agent of the fatal tick-borne disease
Heartwater, induces severe damage to the vascular endothelium in ruminants …

During infection, some intracellular pathogenic bacteria use a dedicated multiprotein
complex known as the type IV secretion system to deliver type IV effector (T4E) proteins …

The rickettsial pathogen Ehrlichia chaffeensis causes a tick-borne disease, human
monocytic ehrlichiosis. Mutations within certain genomic locations of the pathogen aid in …

The obligate intracellular pathogenic bacterium, Ehrlichia ruminantium, is the causal agent
of heartwater, a fatal disease in ruminants transmitted by Amblyomma ticks. So far, three …