• A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of rhipicephalus microplus 

      Garcia Guizzo, Melina; Parizi, Luís Fernando; Nunes, Rodrigo Dutra; Schama, Renata; Albano, Rodolpho M.; Tirloni, Lucas; Oldiges, Daiane Patrícia; Pilz Vieira, Ricardo; Cruz Oliveira, Wanderson Henrique; De Souza Leite, Milane; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Martins, Orlando; Da Silva Vaz, Itabajara; Oliveira, Pedro L. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-12)
      The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite that causes important economic losses in livestock. Different species of ticks harbor a symbiont bacterium of the genus Coxiella. It was showed that ...
    • Closing the Gaps to Understand the Tick Transmission of Anaplasma marginale among Giant Anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Argentina 

      Guillemi, Eliana Carolina; Imbert, Mélody; De La Fourniere, Sofia; Orozco, Maria Marcela; Peña Martínez, Jorge; Rosas, Ana Carolina; Montenegro, Valeria Noely; Farber, Marisa Diana (MDPI, 2020-12)
      Anaplasma marginale, a well-known cattle pathogen of tropical and subtropical world regions, has been previously molecularly characterized in a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) from Corrientes, Argentina. Ticks or ...
    • Evidence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Argentina through molecular detection in marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) 

      Guillemi, Eliana Carolina; Orozco, Maria Marcela; Argibay, Hernán Darío; Farber, Marisa Diana (Elsevier, 2019-04)
      Vector-borne pathogens are responsible for serious emerging diseases and have been widely described in wildlife. Ehrlichia chaffeensis causes the zoonotic “monocytic ehrlichiosis” in humans, is transmitted by the tick ...