Ticks

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • An efficient strategy of screening for pathogens in wild-caught ticks and mosquitoes by reusing small RNA deep sequencing data. 
  • Clinical and epidemiologic features of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mississippi, 1933-1973. 
  • Comparisons of the foveae dorsales in male and female ixodid ticks Amblyomma americanum, A. maculatum, Dermacentor andersoni and D. variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae). 
  • Contact toxicity of permethrin-impregnated fabric to Hyalomma anatolicum excavatum (Acari: Ixodidae): effects of laundering and exposure and recovery times. 
  • Diagnosis and management of tickborne rickettsial diseases: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichioses, and anaplasmosis--United States: a practical guide for physicians and other health-care and public health professionals. 
  • Discrepancies between self-reported tick bites and evidence of tick-borne disease exposure among nomadic Mongolian herders. 
  • Ehrlichiosis in children. 
  • Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat. 
  • Estimated seroprevalence of Anaplasma spp. and spotted fever group Rickettsia exposure among herders and livestock in Mongolia. 
  • Fatal Queensland tick typhus. 
  • Fever, episcleritis, epistaxis, and rash after safari holiday in Swaziland. 
  • Lyme disease in children: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. 
  • Mutualism or parasitism? Using a phylogenetic approach to characterize the oxpecker-ungulate relationship. 
  • Photo quiz. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. 
  • Rhipicephalus sanguineus: vector of a new spotted fever group rickettsia in the United States. 
  • Rickettsia rickettsii transmission by a lone star tick, North Carolina. 
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mississippi: survey for spotted fever antibodies in dogs and for spotted fever group reckettsiae in dog ticks. 
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever in childhood. 
  • Spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Australia. 
  • The incidence of ehrlichial and rickettsial infection in patients with unexplained fever and recent history of tick bite in central North Carolina. 
  • Tick-borne disease. 
  • What's new in Rocky Mountain spotted fever?