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Molecular pathogen screening of louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from domestic and wild ruminants in Austria
BackgroundHippoboscid flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), also known as louse flies or keds, are obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of animals, and...
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Arthropods
This chapter covers important arthropods, which endanger humans either by application of poison (as do scorpions and spiders) or by injection of...
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Historical overview and update on relapsing fever group Borrelia in Latin America
Relapsing fever group Borrelia (RFGB) are motile spirochetes transmitted to mammalian or avian hosts through the bite of hematophagous arthropods,...
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Variation of mitochondrial minichromosome composition in Hoplopleura lice (Phthiraptera: Hoplopleuridae) from rats
BackgroundThe family Hoplopleuridae contains at least 183 species of blood-sucking lice, which widely parasitize both mice and rats. Fragmented...
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Imported Hyalomma ticks in the Netherlands 2018–2020
BackgroundTicks of the genus Hyalomma , which are vectors for several tick-borne diseases, are occasionally found in areas outside their endemic...
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Organisms Those Carry Disease Causing Organisms (Vector)
Most of the disease carrying organisms are Arthropods and they are called vectors.
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Miscellaneous Bacteria
This chapter includes a wide range of various groups of bacteria that have been associated with human infections. Important bacteria are Listeria...
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Current and future strategies against cutaneous parasites
Cutaneous parasites are identified by their specific cutaneous symptoms which are elicited based on the parasite’s interactions with the host....
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Giftige Arthropoden und Ektoparasiten
Als Arthropoda (= Gliederfüßer) werden Tiere mit heteronomer Segmentierung zusammengefasst. Ihnen ist gemeinsam, dass sie ein mehr oder minder...
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Letter P
Pappenheimer bodies are abnormal granules in red blood cells. They are basophilic inclusions that are usually seen at the periphery of the cell. They...
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Dangerous Viral Pathogens of Animal Origin: Risk and Biosecurity
Most of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are of animal origin and transmitted under natural circumstances from either, wild or domestic...
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Genetic diversity of vector-borne pathogens in spotted and brown hyenas from Namibia and Tanzania relates to ecological conditions rather than host taxonomy
BackgroundImproved knowledge on vector-borne pathogens in wildlife will help determine their effect on host species at the population and individual...
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Detection of Theileria spp. in ticks, sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus), and livestock in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, China
Theileria species, with a broad geographic distribution, infect a wide range of both domestic and wild animals and are transmitted by ixodid ticks....
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Biological activity evaluations of chemical constituents derived from Mongolian medicinal forage plants and their applications in combating infectious diseases and addressing health problems in humans and livestock
Mongolian nomadic people possess traditional knowledge of wild plants that grow in their areas of habitation. Many of these are forage plants in...
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Vectors and Vector Borne Diseases: Morphological and Molecular Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, Population Genetics and Control Strategies
Vector-borne diseases are transmitted through arthropods and new associations between them and pathogens are continually being described. In the...
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Infectious Diseases
This chapter will review cutaneous infections and infections that manifest with cutaneous findings (infections of newborns will be discussed in the...
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A new methodology for sporogony research of avian haemoproteids in laboratory-reared Culicoides spp., with a description of the complete sporogonic development of Haemoproteus pastoris
BackgroundHaemosporidian parasites of the genus Haemoproteus (Haemoproteidae) are widespread and cause haemoproteosis in birds and therefore, their...
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DNA of Theileria orientalis, T. equi and T. capreoli in stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans)
BackgroundFrom a veterinary-medical point of view, the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans , is perhaps the economically most important blood-sucking...
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Trypanosomosis
Trypanosomosis is a common disease in animals and humans in tropical and subtropical regions. It is caused by parasitic trypanosomes. Trypanosomosis...
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Bartonella quintana and Bartonella vinsonii subsp. vinsonii bloodstream co-infection in a girl from North Carolina, USA
The genus Bartonella consists of globally distributed and highly diverse alpha-proteobacteria that infect a wide-range of mammals. Medically, Bartonella...
