Vector-Host Relationship Potential Rickettsia vectors were found parasitizing eight mammalian species, Bos taurus (cattle), Canis familiaris (dog), Capra hircus (sheep), Equus asinus (ass) Equus ...

Cattle were the most frequently sampled hosts across all tick vectors (62.98%, n=5492), followed by goats (19.07%, n= 1663) and sheep (9.1%, n= 793). To our knowledge, this is the first systematic and ...

Evolutionary Intricacies Of Rickettsia Pathogens Revealed Date: April 29, 2008 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Scientists have unveiled some of the evolutionary intricacies of rickettsial pathogens ...

Novel Rickettsia Species Infecting Dogs, United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020; 26 (12) DOI: 10.3201/eid2612.200272 ...

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Rickettsia Sca2 mimics eukaryotic formins by promoting actin filament nucleation and elongation to assemble actin comet tails for Rickettsia motility. We show that unlike formins, Sca2 is monomeric, ...

Original Article Published: 01 April 2001 Rickettsia associated with male-killing in a buprestid beetle Eilleen T Lawson, Timothy A Mousseau, Rebecca Klaper, Mark D Hunter & John H Werren Heredity ...

Connecticut officials have reported the first human case in the state of the tickborne disease Rickettsia parkeri. This is also the first case detected in the Northeastern region of the country. The ...

A variety of species of Rickettsia, and their vectors, have since been identified in areas with reported cases of SF (Cunha et al., 2009; Gehrke et al., 2009; Medeiros et al., 2011; Szabó et al., 2013 ...