BACKGROUND Acute rheumatic fever is considered a relatively uncommon disease in developed countries. Although cases are encountered in the Nazareth area in Israel, no systematic study of this disease has been done in the last 20 years. OBJECTIVE To study the incidence and characteristics of acute rheumatic fever cases in the Nazareth area during the last decade. METHODS Cases of acute rheum...

The coarse-legged tick Hyalomma rufipes (Koch, 1844), a two-host and an important vector for multiple pathogens, can cause severe damage to humans domestic animals. Here, we provide the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of H. from China obtained by next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods. 14,761 bp long mitogenome had high A + T content (79.7%) contained typical set 37 genes, with 13 ...

A Babesia sp. was recently observed in Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and found to be transmissible to bovines. Further observations were carried out on this parasite and a study made of the morphology of stages in both erythrocytes and tick haemolymph. Apart from Babesia divergens, intra-erythrocytic parasites were not readily distinguishable from bovine Babesia spp. Merozoites in tick haemolymph...

ticks (acari: ixodidae) are obligatory blood feeders and important external parasites of wildlife, domestic animals and humans in tropical and subtropical areas. ticks primarily transmit different pathogenic organisms to livestock and humans, and secondly harm their animal hosts by decreasing blood protein content and nutrients due to partial exsanguinations, induce allergic reaction and someti...

This study was conducted from September 2011 to May 2012 in Borana pastoral area with the objectives of determining the distribution and relative abundance of Ixodid ticks on cattle in relation to short rain and major dry seasons, cattle age and sex. A total of 8,912 adult ticks belonging to genera of Rhipicephalus, Amblyomma, Boophilus and Hyalomma were collected from 768 indigenous cattle. Rh...

BACKGROUND Ticks are hematophagous arthropod belonging to the Class of Arachnids. Ticks are also one of the major vectors of pathogens to animal and human. This study was conducted to determine tick infestation rate of sheep in Abdanan during 2007-2008. METHODS Sampling was performed seasonally in 19 villages during spring 2007 until winter 2008. A total of 1095 sheep were selected and tested...

Abstract Evidence climate change is impacting ticks and tick-borne infections generally lacking. This primarily because, in most parts of the world, there are no long-term replicated data on distribution abundance tick populations, prevalence incidence infections. Notable exceptions exist, as Canada where northeastern advance Ixodes scapularis Lyme borreliosis USA prompted establishment associa...