Epidemiology and genetic diversity of Theileria equi and Babesia caballi in Mongolian horses
Infect Genet Evol. 2024 Feb 15;119:105571. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2024.105571. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEquine piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by Theileria equi and Babesia caballi in horses. Because of its impact on horse industry, control of this disease is crucial for endemic countries. The control of equine piroplasmosis may be influenced by the genotypic diversity of T. equi and B. caballi. Mongolia, a country with a thriving livestock industry, is endemic for T. equi and B. caballi. However, nationwide epidemiological surveys have not been conducted to determine the current status of infections and g...
Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution - February 16, 2024 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Davaajav Otgonsuren Tovuu Amgalanbaatar Sandagdorj Narantsatsral Batsaikhan Enkhtaivan Dalantai Munkhgerel Myagmar Zoljargal Batbold Davkharbayar Punsantsogvoo Myagmarsuren Banzrach Battur Badgar Battsetseg Thillaiampalam Sivakumar Naoaki Yokoyama Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 304: The Vector Competence of Asian Longhorned Ticks in Langat Virus Transmission
In conclusion, the virus–vector–host model employed in this study provides valuable insights into the replication and transmission of LGTV throughout its life cycle. (Source: Viruses)
Source: Viruses - February 16, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Yan Xu Jingwen Wang Tags: Article Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition - United States, 2022
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 Feb 15;73(6):118-123. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7306a1.ABSTRACTLyme disease, a tickborne zoonosis caused by certain species of Borrelia spirochetes, is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States. Approximately 90% of all cases are reported from 15 high-incidence jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper-Midwest regions. After the implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, high-incidence jurisdictions report cases based on laboratory evidence alone, without need for additional clinical information. In 2022, 62,551 Lyme disease cases were reported ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 15, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kiersten J Kugeler Austin Earley Paul S Mead Alison F Hinckley Source Type: research
First report of Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia spp., and Rickettsia spp. in Amblyomma gervaisi ticks infesting monitor lizards (Varanus begalensis) of Pakistan
In this study, we investigated tick infestation patterns, tick-associated pathogens, and genetic relationships within the tick species Amblyomma gervaisi, focusing on its prevalence in monitor lizards (Varanus bengalensis) across different districts in Pakistan. We examined 85 monitor lizards and identified an overall mean intensity of 19.59 ticks per infested lizard and an overall mean abundance of 11.98 ticks per examined lizard. All collected ticks (n = 1019) were morphologically identified as A. gervaisi, including 387 males, 258 females, 353 nymphs, and 21 larvae. The highest tick prevalence was observed in the Buner ...
Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution - February 14, 2024 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Shakir Ullah Jing-Syuan Huang Afshan Khan Raquel Coss ío-Bayúgar Nasreen Nasreen Sadaf Niaz Adil Khan Tsai-Ying Yen Kun-Hsien Tsai Mourad Ben Said Source Type: research
First report of Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia spp., and Rickettsia spp. in Amblyomma gervaisi ticks infesting monitor lizards (Varanus begalensis) of Pakistan
In this study, we investigated tick infestation patterns, tick-associated pathogens, and genetic relationships within the tick species Amblyomma gervaisi, focusing on its prevalence in monitor lizards (Varanus bengalensis) across different districts in Pakistan. We examined 85 monitor lizards and identified an overall mean intensity of 19.59 ticks per infested lizard and an overall mean abundance of 11.98 ticks per examined lizard. All collected ticks (n = 1019) were morphologically identified as A. gervaisi, including 387 males, 258 females, 353 nymphs, and 21 larvae. The highest tick prevalence was observed in the Buner ...
Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution - February 14, 2024 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Shakir Ullah Jing-Syuan Huang Afshan Khan Raquel Coss ío-Bayúgar Nasreen Nasreen Sadaf Niaz Adil Khan Tsai-Ying Yen Kun-Hsien Tsai Mourad Ben Said Source Type: research
Human risk to tick encounters in the southeastern United States estimated with spatial distribution modeling
by Rebecca A. Butler, Mona Pape ş, James T. Vogt, Dave J. Paulsen, Christopher Crowe, Rebecca T. Trout Fryxell
Expanding geographic distribution and increased populations of ticks has resulted in an upsurge of human-tick encounters in the United States (US), leading to an increase in tickborne disease reporting. Limited knowledge of the broadscale spatial range of tick species is heightened by a rapidly changing environment. Therefore, we partnered with the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and used passive tick surveillance to better understand spatiotempor...
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - February 14, 2024 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Rebecca A. Butler Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 286: Multiplex Serology for Sensitive and Specific Flavivirus IgG Detection: Addition of Envelope Protein Domain III to NS1 Increases Sensitivity for Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus IgG Detection
antal Reusken
Tick-borne encephalitis is a vaccine-preventable disease of concern for public health in large parts of Europe, with EU notification rates increasing since 2018. It is caused by the orthoflavivirus tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and a diagnosis of infection is mainly based on serology due to its short viremic phase, often before symptom onset. The interpretation of TBEV serology is hampered by a history of orthoflavivirus vaccination and by previous infections with related orthoflaviviruses. Here, we sought to improve TBEV sero-diagnostics using an antigen combination of in-house expressed NS1 and E...
Source: Viruses - February 13, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Coralie Valle Sandhya Shrestha Gert-Jan Godeke Marieke N. Hoogerwerf Johan Reimerink Dirk Eggink Chantal Reusken Tags: Article Source Type: research
Larvicidal activity of diterpenes from < em > Xylopia langsdorfiana < /em > St. Hilaire & amp; Tulasne (Annonaceae) against < em > Aedes aegypti < /em > linn. (diptera: culicidae)
Nat Prod Res. 2024 Feb 11:1-7. doi: 10.1080/14786419.2024.2312418. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMosquitoes of the Aedes genus are responsible for transmitting many vector-borne viral diseases worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of people die annually from vector-borne diseases, including West Nile fever, dengue, tick-borne diseases, yellow fever, chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, and Zika. Billions of people are at the risk of infection on all continents, which is a cause of international concern. Therefore, new vector-control methods are essential for mitigating these illnesses. The bioactive hydrocarbons isolated from Xylopi...
Source: Natural Product Research - February 12, 2024 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Karlos Antonio Lisboa Ribeiro-J únior S âmia Andrícia Souza da Silva Jo ão Xavier de Araújo-Júnior Jo ão Gomes da Costa Henrique Fonseca Goulart Vanderson Barbosa Bernardo Marcelo Sobral da Silva Josean Fechine Tavares Antonio Euz ébio Goulart San Source Type: research
The Occurrence and Diversity of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Small Mammals from Serbia
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Ahead of Print. (Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases)
Source: Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases - February 12, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Gorana Veinovi ć Ratko Sukara Darko Mihaljica Aleksandra Penezi ć Du ško Ćirović Sne žana Tomanović Source Type: research
Proteomic and metabolomic analysis of the serum of patients with tick-borne encephalitis
In this study, a comprehensive analysis was conducted to characterize the serum metabolome and proteome of adult patients infected with TBEV, in comparison to a control group of healthy individuals. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) was employed to monitor metabolic and proteomic alternations throughout the progression of the disease, significant physiological changes associated with different stages of the disease were identified. A total of 44 proteins and 115 metabolites exhibited significantly alternations in the sera of patients diagnosed with TBE. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and...
Source: Journal of Proteomics - February 8, 2024 Category: Biochemistry Authors: YanDan Du LePing Ou HaiJun Zheng DeSheng Lu YiQing Niu ChunXi Bao Meng Zhang ZhiHui Mi Source Type: research
