| soldado virus from ornithodoros (alectorobius) maritimus (ixodoidea: argasidae) infesting herring gull nests on puffin island, northern wales. | three strains of soldado (sol) virus (hughes serogroup) were isolated from nymphal and adult ornithodoros (alectorobius) maritimus vermeil et marguet collected in and near nests of the herring gull, larus a. argentatus pontoppidan, on puffin island, northern wales. reciprocal complement fixation (cf) titration results demonstrated recovered virus strains to be sol virus and antigenically distinct from other hughes serogroup members. all isolates killed mice and guinea pigs, and 1-2 day old domes ... | 1976 | 9805 |
| the ornithodoros (alectorobius) capensis group (acarina: ixodoidea: argasidae) of the palearctic and oriental regions. o. (a.) maritimus: identity, marine bird hosts, virus infections, and distribution in western europe and northwestern africa. | in 1967, vermeil and marguet described ornithodoros coniceps maritimus from larvae reared from larvae taken from marine birds on dumet island (atlantic ocean), basse bretagne, france. we collected o. (a.) coniceps canestrini, 1890, from the type locality (venice, italy) and determined that the taxons coniceps and maritimus each require full species status. we selected a lectotype and paralectotypes for the taxon maritimus from the original dumet island material. the larva of maritimus is redescr ... | 1976 | 978368 |
| investigation of the ecology of soldado virus on puffin island, north wales. | the prevalence of soldado (sol) virus and sol virus antibodies was investigated on immature sea birds and the argasid tick ornithodoros (alectorobius) maritimus collected on puffin island, north wales. no sol virus was recovered from 133 bird sera, but 2 of the birds exhibited neutralizing antibodies against sol virus. nine of 27 tick pools (226 individuals) and 34 of 173 ticks tested individually proved to be infected with sol virus. | 1979 | 42303 |