Sentences with word «scapularis»

Ten male Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), aged 2 — 3 years were subjected to infection with B. burgdorferi by nymphal Ixodes scapularis tick feeding.
Mortality data collected on day 32 after application showed 90 % kill rate of Ixodes scapularis ticks.
For each round of xenodiagnosis, 20 uninfected Ixodes scapularis nymphs were placed on each monkey.
The spirochete responsible for Lyme borreliosis is hyperendemic along the Hudson River Valley, especially the counties east of the river, indicative of the high population levels of its tick host, I. scapularis [24 — 27].
The Ixodes scapularis genome appears to be very large in size, ~ 2.1 Gbp.
B. burgdorferi clones were tested for their proficiency in the mouse - tick infectious cycle by using naïve RML mice and naïve Ixodes scapularis larvae from a colony kept at RML, as described in ref.
She reports PCR evidence of Borrelia in scapularis and cajannense from Mexico.
Ixodes scapularis keeps Lyme Borrelia cycling in nature, says Clark, as do three other Ixodes species on the ground: Ixodes affinis moves among rodents; I. minor moves among rodents and probably birds; and I. dentatus moves among birds and rabbits.
Unlike heat - fleeing nymphs, scapularis adults do bite, but they're easy to see and remove.
What did it matter if the tick species were the same, if scapularis nymphs didn't bite people in the South?
In 1977, Lyme arthritis was linked to the Ixodes scapularis blacklegged tick.
On December 3rd, 2008, the NIAID Microbial Sequencing Centers announced annotation Release 1.0 of the Ixodes scapularis genome sequence (GenBank accession ABJB010000000.)
Oliver attributed most of those differences to Southern heat: To avoid it, scapularis nymphs hide out under leaf litter, biting lizards and small mammals instead of questing for larger prey on tall grass or brush.
Passage through Ixodes scapularis Ticks Enhances the Virulence of a Weakly Pathogenic Isolate of Borrelia burgdorferi
Bite: In the South, both female and male ticks have been known to bite people in the fall, winter and spring, when things cool off, but the CDC considers Ixodes scapularis an unlikely vector of disease in the South.
Bite: Larvae and nymphs are recognized as transmitters of anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Lyme disease and Powassan virus in the northern half of Ixodes scapularis» range.
They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.
In a series of experiments from 1989 - 1990, Oliver demonstrated that so - called Northern deer ticks (dammini) and the blacklegged ticks (scapularis) found up and down the East Coast bit exactly the same animals in the lab.
Lyme researcher Gary Wormser saw the difference as more basic: «There's no doubt that something somewhat like the deer tick exists in the South; it's called the same name — Ixodes scapularis.
If their suspicions are borne out, Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum are the primary ways that Lyme can enter human populations in the South, with three other species — the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum), the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) and the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)-- playing subsidiary roles.
When NIH entomologist Willy Burgdorfer discovered the Lyme spirochete inside what he identified as I. scapularis ticks from Fire Island, N.Y., in 1981, Spielman immediately claimed that those infected ticks weren't scapularis, butdammini as well.
They found blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), also called deer ticks, infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease in all nine parks.
Mice, chipmunks, and other small mammals are common hosts for the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis), providing the ticks a home, food source, and means of spreading, all in one.
And next up: sequencing the genome of the Lyme disease — spreading deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, which is twice the size of Aedes's and could prove to be even more complex.
The unusual model involves culturing organs taken from Ixodes scapularis ticks and then infecting those organ cultures with flaviviruses, according to researchers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, part of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are the primary vector of Lyme disease to humans, but researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia are focusing on another tick, Ixodes affinis, even though it doesn't bite people.
Ixodes scapularis ticks transmit the pathogens of Lyme disease, resulting a multisystem illness in a variety of animals and humans.
Flavivirus infection of Ixodes scapularis (black - legged tick) ex vivo organotypic cultures and application for control.
Two additional seropositive individuals were identified in Albany and Suffolk Counties, locations with burgeoning populations of I. scapularis.
The blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) is a hard - bodied tick found on the East coast and upper Midwest.
Lyme disease is spread through the bite of an infected blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis).
Ixodes scapularis is the tick that carries Lyme disease in the Northeastern, North central, and mid Atlantic areas of the United States.
Lyme disease in dogs is caused by infection with Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which are transmitted through the bites of eastern and western black - legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus).
It is effective against all stages of fleas, 4 types of ticks (Rhipicephalus spp, Dermacentor variabilis, Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma maculatum) and 3 types of mosquitoes (Culex spp, Ochlerotatus spp, Aedes spp).
The deer tick is also known as the black - legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), and is red with black legs and is
It kills adult fleas and also treats and controls tick infestations, including Ixodes scapularis (black - legged tick), Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick), and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick).
Bravecto Chews kills adult fleas and is indicated for the treatment and prevention of flea infestations (Ctenocephalides felis), and the treatment and control of tick infestations [Ixodes scapularis (black - legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick)-RRB-, Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick), and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)-RSB- for 12 weeks in dogs and puppies 6 months of age and older, and weighing 4.4 pounds or greater.
Catego offers protection against various tick species including Brown dog ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus), American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis), Lone Star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) and Deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis).
Bravecto kills 4 tick species: Ixodes scapularis (black - legged tick), Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick), and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick) for 12 weeks, and Amblyomma americanum (lone star tick) for 8 weeks.
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