• First report of Anaplasma marginale infection in goats, Brazil 

      da Silva, Nayara B.; Taus, Naomi S.; Johnson, Wendell C.; Mira, Anabela; Schnittger, Leonhard; Valente, Jessica D. M.; Vidotto, Odilon; Masterson, Hayley E.; Vieira, Thállitha S. W. J.; Ueti, Massaro W.; Vieira, Rafael F. C. (Public Library of Science, 2018-08)
      Anaplasma marginale, the causative agent of bovine anaplasmosis, is a tick-borne bacterium that causes significant economic losses for cattle industries and is increasingly being detected in other animal species. Rhipicephalus ...
    • N-Glycosylation in piroplasmids : Diversity within simplicity 

      Florin-Christensen, Mónica; Rodriguez, Anabel Elisa; Suarez, Carlos Esteban; Ueti, Massaro W.; Delgado, Fernando Oscar; Echaide, Ignacio Eduardo; Schnittger, Leonhard (MDPI, 2021-01)
      N-glycosylation has remained mostly unexplored in Piroplasmida, an order of tick-transmitted pathogens of veterinary and medical relevance. Analysis of 11 piroplasmid genomes revealed three distinct scenarios regarding ...
    • Unraveling the complexity of the rhomboid serine protease 4 family of Babesia bovis using bioinformatics and experimental studies 

      Gallenti, Romina Josefina; Hussein, Hala E.; Alzan, Heba F.; Suarez, Carlos Esteban; Ueti, Massaro W.; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Benitez, Daniel Francisco; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Rolls, Peter; Sibeko, Kgomotso; Schnittger, Leonhard; Florin-Christensen, Mónica (MDPI, 2022-03)
      Babesia bovis, a tick-transmitted apicomplexan protozoon, infects cattle in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. In the apicomplexans Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, rhomboid serine protease 4 ...