Nature

Rickettsia species in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks feeding on human skin and clinical manifestations of tick-borne infections after tick bite

Dermacentor reticulatus ticks are sporadically removed from human skin and therefore the medical consequences of their feeding are neglected compared to Ixodes ricinus. We investigated the prevalence ...
Science Daily

Dermacentor limbooliati: New tick species from Malaysia, Vietnam

A new tick species found in Malaysia and Vietnam was recently discovered in the United States National Tick Collection by researchers in Georgia. A new tick species found in Malaysia and Vietnam was ...
News Medical

The discovery of a novel orthonairovirus from Dermacentor silvarum ticks near the China–North Korea border

In a recent study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers isolated a novel virus of the Orthonairovirus genus from samples of the Dermacentor silvarum tick species near the ...
Nature

Applying MALDI-TOF MS to resolve morphologic and genetic similarities between two Dermacentor tick species of public health importance

A subset of 105 specimens from 12 states identified by morphological criteria were evaluated by DNA sequencing of segments of the nuclear ITS2 and mitochondrial 12S ribosomal DNA genes. A total of 344 ...