| dermacentor reticulatus: a vector on the rise. | dermacentor reticulatus is a hard tick species with extraordinary biological features. it has a high reproduction rate, a rapid developmental cycle, and is also able to overcome years of unfavourable conditions. dermacentor reticulatus can survive under water for several months and is cold-hardy even compared to other tick species. it has a wide host range: over 60 different wild and domesticated hosts are known for the three active developmental stages. its high adaptiveness gives an edge to th ... | 2016 | 27251148 |
| omsk haemorrhagic fever. | omsk haemorrhagic fever is an acute viral disease prevalent in some regions of western siberia in russia. the symptoms of this disease include fever, headache, nausea, severe muscle pain, cough, and moderately severe haemorrhagic manifestations. a third of patients develop pneumonia, nephrosis, meningitis, or a combination of these complications. the only treatments available are for control of symptoms. no specific vaccine has been developed, although the vaccine against tick-borne encephalitis ... | 2010 | 20850178 |
| the deduced evolution history of omsk hemorrhagic fever virus. | omsk hemorrhagic fever (ohf) is a severe disease that emerged in the 1940s in siberia, russia. it is caused by the ohf virus (ohfv), belonging to the flavivirus genus. in wildlife, the principal vector of ohfv is the dermacentor reticulatus tick. however, humans are mainly infected after contact with an infected muskrat ondatra zibethicus. the evolutionary history of ohfv is not yet clarified. in an attempt to reconstruct the temporal and spatial phylodynamics of ohfv, a collection of 25 ohfv st ... | 2014 | 24259273 |