Publications

neuromuscular paralysis caused by tick envenomation.	the australian scrub-tick ixodes holocyclus causes a series of significant toxic effects in its victims. the most important feature of tick envenomation is neuromuscular paralysis. children poisoned by ticks may manifest only local motoneural effects, usually facial paralysis. progressive ascending flaccid paralysis occurs if the removal of an embedded tick is delayed. the specific neurological features of tick-bite are discussed in the light of a series of 6 children who all showed signs of tic ...	1977	915536
absence of the symbiont candidatus midichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the tick ixodes holocyclus.	candidatus midichloria mitochondrii (m. mitochondrii) belongs to a novel clade of bacteria within the order rickettsiales. recent pcr-based screening studies indicate that it is present in a number of blood-sucking arthropods, as well as the blood of some vertebrates. its medical and veterinary significance remains to be determined. electron microscopic examinations of m. mitochondrii have thus far been conducted on two infected tick species. remarkably, the bacterium was found in abundance with ...	2009	19732154