Tick-borne diseases are common occurrences in both the medical and veterinary clinical
settings. In addition to the constraints related to their diagnosis and clinical management, the …

Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the
spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These zoonoses are among the oldest known …

The class Alphaproteobacteria is comprised of a diverse assemblage of Gram-negative
bacteria that includes organisms of varying morphologies, physiologies and habitat …

Abstract The book Australian Ticks by FHS Roberts (1970) is a land-mark in Australian tick
biology. But it is time for a new and improved book on the ticks of Australia. The present …

Scrub typhus and the rickettsial diseases represent some of the oldest recognized vector-
transmitted diseases, fraught with a rich historical aspect, particularly as applied to …

Rickettsia felis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is different from other officially
recognized rickettsial species. It has multiple genes of different origins, an incubation …

We obtained a rickettsial isolate from the ovaries of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis.
The isolate (ISO7T) was grown in the Ixodes ricinus embryonic cell line IRE11. We …

Several arthropod taxa live exclusively on vertebrate blood. This food source lacks essential
metabolites required for the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis, and as such, these …

Argas vespertilionis, an argasid tick associated with bats and bat habitats in Europe, Africa,
and Asia has been reported to bite humans; however, studies investigating the presence of …

We here present annotated lists of names of Candidatus taxa of prokaryotes with ranks
between subspecies and class, proposed between the mid-1990s, when the provisional …