Ticks were collected at approximately bi-monthly intervals between June 1996 and June 1997 from crested francolins, Francolinus sephaena, and from the vegetation on a mixed cattle and wildlife farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The birds were infested with the immature stages of 13 tick species, of which Amblyomma hebraeum, Amblyomma marmoreum and Hyalomma marginatum rufipes were the most ...

Abstract Background This review documents the hard tick species that have been reported in Nigeria, their distribution, pathogens transmitted and disease they cause Nigeria; literature considered studies were conducted between 2000 2021. Main body The (Ixodidae) widely present country are those of genera; Amblyomma, Rhipicephalus/Boophilus, Hyalomma, Ixodes, Dermacentor Haemaphysalis among whic...

Epilobium and Chamaenerion included 165 8 species over the world, respectively. The members of genera are distributed particularly in moist habitats from subpolar to tropical regions.This paper aims provide improvements phylogeny using Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) nuclear DNA matK gene sequence data evaluation with maximum parsimony, likelihood, Bayesian inference criterations. A total 188...

The use of tick vaccine in controlling ticks and tick borne diseases has been proved effective in integrated tick management format. For the control of H. a. anatolicum, Bm86 ortholog of H. a. anatolicum was cloned and expressed as fusion protein in E. coli as E. coli-pETHaa86. The molecular weight of the rHaa86 was 97 kDa with a 19 kDa fusion tag of thioredoxin protein. The expressed protein w...

Understanding sexual dimorphism is very important in studies of insect evolution. Though has been the subject numerous entomological there have no examined Dorcadion anatolicum Pic, 1900 which endemic to Turkey. In this study, using geometric morphometrics, we analyzed size and shape pronotum specimens collected from Konya Province. Results morphometrics revealed that can be effectively used mo...

BACKGROUND Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae. Although Spotted Fever is prevalent in the Middle East, no reports for the presence of tick-borne pathogens are available or any studies on the epidemiology of this disease in the West Bank. We aimed to identify the circulating hard tick vectors and genetical...