Metatranscriptomic profiling reveals diverse tick‐borne bacteria, protozoans and viruses in ticks and wildlife from Australia

The Impacts of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Disease Risk

(2021) Lucy Gilbert   Annual Review of Entomology

Morphological identification of ticks and molecular detection of tick-borne pathogens from bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus)

(2021) Danielle Beard et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Relative Efficiency of Drag Fabrics for Collection of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae, Nymphs, and Adults

(2021) Thomas W Simmons et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Single mosquito metatranscriptomics identifies vectors, emerging pathogens and reservoirs in one assay

(2021) Joshua Batson et al.   eLife

Unbiased Characterization of the Microbiome and Virome of Questing Ticks

(2021) Shona Chandra et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

BASELINE HEALTH PARAMETERS FOR A NEWLY ESTABLISHED POPULATION OF LONG-NOSED POTOROO (POTOROUS TRIDACTYLUS) AT BOODEREE NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA

(2021) Jane Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Molecular Detection of Trypanosoma spp. in Questing and Feeding Ticks (Ixodidae) Collected from an Endemic Region of South-West Australia

(2021) Anna-Sheree Krige et al.   Pathogens

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

(2020) Bui Quang Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bacterial community profiling highlights complex diversity and novel organisms in wildlife ticks

(2020) Siobhon L. Egan et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Molecular identification of the Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) lewisi clade in black rats (Rattus rattus) from Australia

(2020) Siobhon L. Egan et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Analysis of Tick Surface Decontamination Methods

(2020) Angeline Hoffmann et al.   Microorganisms

Impact of Land Use Changes and Habitat Fragmentation on the Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Diseases

(2020) Maria A Diuk-Wasser et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Meta-transcriptomic identification of Trypanosoma spp. in native wildlife species from Australia

(2020) Ayda Susana Ortiz-Baez et al.   Parasites & Vectors

‘Hook, line, and sinker’: Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) uncovers Trypanosoma noyesi in Australian questing ticks

(2020) Anna-Sheree Krige et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Blood Parasites in Endangered Wildlife-Trypanosomes Discovered During a Survey of Haemoprotozoa from the Tasmanian Devil

(2020) Siobhon L. Egan et al.   Pathogens

Ixodes scapularis microbiome correlates with life stage, not the presence of human pathogens, in ticks submitted for diagnostic testing

(2020) Joshua C. Gil et al.   PeerJ

Screening for Rickettsia, Coxiella and Borrelia Species in Ticks from Queensland, Australia

(2020) Hazizul Hussain-Yusuf et al.   Pathogens

Fecal metatranscriptomics of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea reveals altered mucin degradation and fucose utilization

(2019) Samuel T. Westreich et al.   Microbiome

Human Tick-Borne Diseases in Australia

(2019) Mona Dehhaghi et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A New Segmented Virus Associated with Human Febrile Illness in China

(2019) Ze-Dong Wang et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Emergence of human infection with Jingmen tick virus in China: A retrospective study

(2019) Na Jia et al.   EBioMedicine

A standardized method for the construction of a tick drag/flag sampling approach and evaluation of sampling efficacy

(2019) Brent C. Newman et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Insights into the Host Range, Genetic Diversity, and Geographical Distribution of Jingmenviruses

(2019) Sarah Temmam et al.   mSphere

Sequence analyses at mitochondrial and nuclear loci reveal a novel Theileria sp. and aid in the phylogenetic resolution of piroplasms from Australian marsupials and ticks

(2019) Amanda D. Barbosa et al.   PLoS One

Discovery of a novel iflavirus sequence in the eastern paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus

(2018) Caitlin A. O’Brien et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

The first records of human infestation by the hard tick Ixodes (Endopalpiger) australiensis (Acari: Ixodidae), with a review of human infestation by ticks in Australia

(2018) Mackenzie L. Kwak   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

A description of ‘Australian Lyme disease’ epidemiology and impact: an analysis of submissions to an Australian senate inquiry

(2018) Jeremy D. Brown   INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

Endemic, exotic and novel apicomplexan parasites detected during a national study of ticks from companion animals in Australia

(2018) Telleasha L. Greay et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Whole body transcriptomes and new insights into the biology of the tick Ixodes ricinus

(2018) N. Pierre Charrier et al.   Parasites & Vectors

A novel Ehrlichia species in blood and Ixodes ornithorhynchi ticks from platypuses ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ) in Queensland and Tasmania, Australia

(2018) Alexander W. Gofton et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Molecular detection and characterisation of Babesia and Theileria in Australian hard ticks

(2018) Brooke Storey-Lewis et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

A relapsing fever group Borrelia sp. is widely distributed among wild deer in Japan

(2018) Yumi Kumagai et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Molecular surveillance of piroplasms in ticks from small and medium-sized urban and peri-urban mammals in Australia

(2018) Siew-May Loh et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Phylogeography of Ticks (Acari: Ixodida)

(2018) Lorenza Beati et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Extensive Diversity of RNA Viruses in Australian Ticks

(2018) Erin Harvey et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Comparative analysis of rodent and small mammal viromes to better understand the wildlife origin of emerging infectious diseases

(2018) Zhiqiang Wu et al.   Microbiome

Detection in Malaysia of a Borrelia sp. From Haemaphysalis hystricis (Ixodida: Ixodidae)

(2017) J. J. Khoo et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Reptile-associated Borrelia species in the goanna tick (Bothriocroton undatum) from Sydney, Australia

(2017) Jessica L. Panetta et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Searching for Lyme borreliosis in Australia: results of a canine sentinel study

(2017) Peter J. Irwin et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Increased genetic diversity and prevalence of co-infection with Trypanosoma spp. in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and their ticks identified using next-generation sequencing (NGS)

(2017) Amanda D. Barbosa et al.   PLoS One

Epidemiological study of relapsing fever borreliae detected in Haemaphysalis ticks and wild animals in the western part of Japan

(2017) Kiwa Furuno et al.   PLoS One

Detection and phylogenetic characterisation of novel Anaplasma and Ehrlichia species in Amblyomma triguttatum subsp. from four allopatric populations in Australia

(2017) Alexander W. Gofton et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Blood transcriptomes reveal novel parasitic zoonoses circulating in Madagascar's lemurs

(2016) Peter A. Larsen et al.   Biology Letters

Phylogenetic characterisation of two novel Anaplasmataceae from Australian Ixodes holocyclus ticks: ‘Candidatus Neoehrlichia australis' and ‘Candidatus Neoehrlichia arcana'

(2016)   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Does Lyme disease exist in Australia?

(2016) Peter J Collignon et al.   MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Novel Borrelia species detected in echidna ticks, Bothriocroton concolor, in Australia

(2016) Siew-May Loh et al.   Parasites & Vectors

MEGAN Community Edition - Interactive Exploration and Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Sequencing Data

(2016) Daniel H. Huson et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Borrelia miyamotoi Disease

(2015) Sam R. Telford et al.   CLINICS IN LABORATORY MEDICINE

Bacterial Profiling Reveals Novel “Ca. Neoehrlichia”, Ehrlichia, and Anaplasma Species in Australian Human-Biting Ticks

(2015) Alexander W. Gofton et al.   PLoS One

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Identification of novel anelloviruses with broad diversity in UK rodents

(2014) S. Nishiyama et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Ticks of Australia. The species that infest domestic animals and humans

(2014) STEPHEN C. BARKER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Remarkable diversity of tick or mammalian-associated Borreliae in the metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area, California

(2014) Natalia Fedorova et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

A relapsing fever group Borrelia sp. similar to Borrelia lonestari found among wild sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) and Haemaphysalis spp. ticks in Hokkaido, Japan

(2014) Kyunglee Lee et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Detection of Zoonotic Pathogens and Characterization of Novel Viruses Carried by Commensal Rattus norvegicus in New York City

(2014) C. Firth et al.   mBio

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Parasites of vectors - Ixodiphagus hookeri and its Wolbachia symbionts in ticks in the Netherlands

(2011) Ellen Tijsse-Klasen et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Vector of Trypanosoma copemani identified as Ixodes sp.

(2011) J. M. AUSTEN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Absence of the symbiontCandidatusMidichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the tickIxodes holocyclus

(2009) Tiziana Beninati et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Trypanosoma irwini n. sp (Sarcomastigophora: Trypanosomatidae) from the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

(2009) L. M. McINNES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Detection of a Hepatozoon and spotted fever group Rickettsia species in the common marsupial tick (Ixodes tasmani) collected from wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), Tasmania

(2009) Inger-Marie E. Vilcins et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Overview: Ticks as vectors of pathogens that cause disease in humans and animals

(2008) Jose de la Fuente   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark