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Portuguese hosts for Ornithodoros erraticus ticks
Palma, Mariana; Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel; Osório, Hugo; Zé-Zé, Líbia; Cutler, Sally J.; Núncio, Maria SofiaThe hematophagous soft tick Ornithodoros erraticus feeds nocturnally on multiple warm-blooded vertebrate hosts. This tick is often found living buried in the soil of traditional pigpens. O. erraticus is an important infectious disease vector both for humans and animals. In the Iberian Peninsula, this tick serves as the vector of human tick-borne relapsing fever caused by the spirochete Borrelia hispanica. The n...
Membrane and envelope virus proteins co-expressed as lysosome associated membra...
Dhalia,Rafael; Maciel Jr.,Milton; Cruz,Fábia S.P.; Viana,Isabelle F.T.; Palma,Mariana L.; August,Thomas; Marques Jr.,Ernesto T.A.Vaccination is the most practical and cost-effective strategy to prevent the majority of the flavivirus infection to which there is an available vaccine. However, vaccines based on attenuated virus can potentially promote collateral side effects and even rare fatal reactions. Given this scenario, the developent of alternative vaccination strategies such as DNA-based vaccines encoding specific flavivirus sequenc...
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