Ticks represent a major concern for society worldwide. Ticks are also difficult to control, and
vaccines represent the most efficacious, safe, economically feasible and environmentally …

Background The control of vector-borne diseases is important to improve human and animal
health worldwide. Malaria is one of the world's deadliest diseases and is caused by …

Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites that infect domestic animals, humans, and
wildlife. Ticks can transmit a wide range of pathogens (viruses, rickettsia, bacteria, parasites …

Subolesin/akirin is a protective antigen that is highly conserved across hematophagous
vector species and is therefore potentially useful for the development of a universal vaccine …

Lyme disease is one of the most prevalent and fastest growing vector-borne bacterial
illnesses in the United States, with over 25,000 new confirmed cases every year. Humans …

Background Blood-feeding arthropods can harm their hosts in many ways, such as through
direct tissue damage and anemia, but also by distracting hosts from foraging or watching for …

Cattle ticks are responsible for great economic losses in cattle farming worldwide, and their
main control method, chemicals, has been showing problems, whether resulting from the …

The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus economically impacts cattle production in tropical
and subtropical regions of the world. The recombinant R. microplus Subolesin antigen has …

Ixodes ricinus, the primary vector of tick-borne disease in Europe, is currently expanding its
distribution area and its activity in many countries. Antibody responses to tick salivary …

Akirin is an essential nuclear protein involved in the regulation of NF-κB signaling pathway.
In most invertebrates, Akirin regulates NF-κB-related Imd and Toll pathways, however, in …