• Babesia spp. in ticks and wildlife in different habitat types of Slovakia 

      Hamšíkova, Zuzana; Kazimirová, Mária; Harustiakova, Danka; Mahrikova, Lenka; Slovak, Mirko; Berthová, Lenka; Kocianova, Elena; Schnittger, Leonhard (2016)
      Background: Babesiosis is an emerging and potentially zoonotic disease caused by tick-borne piroplasmids of the Babesia genus. New genetic variants of piroplasmids with unknown associations to vectors and hosts are ...
    • Borrelia genospecies in Ixodes sp. cf. Ixodes affinis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Argentina 

      Flores, Fernando Sebastián; Saracho Bottero, Maria Noelia; Sebastian, Patrick Stephan; Venzal, José Manuel; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Nava, Santiago (Elsevier, 2020-11)
      The aim of this work was to evaluate the presence of Borrelia infection in Ixodes sp. cf. Ixodes affinis ticks from Argentina. Specimens of Ixodes sp. cf. I. affinis were collected on vegetation and birds in five locations ...
    • The Ixodes ricinus complex (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Southern Cone of America: Ixodes pararicinus, Ixodes aragaoi, and Ixodes sp. cf. I. affinis 

      Saracho Bottero, Maria Noelia; Venzal, José Manuel; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Thompson, Carolina Soledad; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Beati, Lorenza; Guglielmone, Alberto; Nava, Santiago (Springer, 2019-11)
      The goal of this study was to clarify the taxonomic status of the Ixodes ricinus complex in the Southern Cone of America, by using morphological characters and molecular markers (mitochondrial 16SrDNA and cox1 genes). The ...