Ticks require blood meal to complete development and reproduction. Multifunctional tick
salivary glands play a pivotal role in tick feeding and transmission of pathogens. Tick …

Rhipicephalus sanguineus, commonly known as the brown dog tick, is a three-host tick that
feeds primarily on dogs and occasionally on other hosts, including humans. R. sanguineus …

Ixodes scapularis ticks transmit many pathogens that cause human disease, including
Borrelia burgdorferi. Acquired resistance to I. scapularis due to repeated tick exposure has …

Next generation sequencing and proteomics have helped to comprehensively characterize
gene expression in tick salivary glands at both the transcriptome and the proteome level …

In response to uncertainty among cattle producers in Australia regarding the need to treat
Bos indicus and B. indicus crossbreeds, the scientific literature relating to the productivity …

There is now abundant evidence that vaccination with defined protein antigens is able to
induce significant immunity to tick infestation. In a limited number of cases, this immunity has …

Tick saliva has pleiotropic properties that facilitate persistence of the arthropod upon the
host. We now describe a feeding-inducible protein in Ixodes scapularis saliva, Salp15, that …

In general, attempts to develop vaccines for pathogens transmitted by arthropods have met
with little or no success. It has been widely observed that the saliva of arthropods that …

There are potent immunomodulators in saliva of the bloodfeeding arthropods which transmit
many of the world's most serious diseases that may benefit the arthropod by preventing the …

Ehrlichia ruminantium is an obligately intracellular proteobacterium which causes a disease
known as heartwater or cowdriosis in some wild, and all domestic, ruminants. The organism …