supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions,National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170142,81971917,81271792,81471571);Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(BK20211310),and funding from Suzhou International Joint Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Diseases.
A systems biology approach was employed to gain insight into tick biology and interactions between vectors and pathogens.Haemaphysalis longicornis serves as one of the primary vectors of Babesia microti,significantly ...
Supported by the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(BJ-2022-182);CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS)(2021-I2M-1-060).
What is already known about this topic?Recently,tick-borne pathogens transmitted through blood transfusions have posed new risks to blood safety.What is added by this report?We developed a quality control system for n...
supported by Deputyship for Research&Innovation,Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia through the project number:ISP23-73.
Objective:To evaluate the combination therapy of pyronaridine tetraphosphate and diminazene aceturate against Babesia in vitro and in vivo.Methods:Bioinformatic analysis was performed using atom pair fingerprints.An i...
funded by the Uniformed Services University Center for Global Health Engagement(CGHE)through the Global Health Engagement Research Initiative(Grant number:GRANT12767296).
The risk of pathogen transmission continues to increase significantly in the presence of tick vectors due to the trade of livestock across countries.In Ghana,there is a lack of data on the incidence of tick-borne path...
supported by the State Key Research Development Program of China(2019YFC1200501);State Key Program of Infectious Diseases(2017ZX10303404);Natural Science Foundation of China(81673235 and 81621005).
The emerging Babesia venatorum upsurges as a potential health threat occurring in China and other endemic countries.Few attempts to isolate and culture the Babesia species had been conducted in vitro.We collected the ...
This work aimed to find quantitative phenotypic traits that can be used to discriminate the levels of resistance/susceptibility to B. bovis and B. bigemina in two groups of cattle presenting the highest (H) or lowest ...
supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)(KAKEN Grant Number:18H02337)
Objective:To evaluate the antipiroplasmic activities of methanolic extract of Olea europaea(MOE)and acetonic extract of Acacia laeta(AAL)against Babesia and Theileria parasites in vitro and evaluate the chemotherapeut...
Ticks are reservoirs of a variety of pathogens including bacteria, viruses and protozoa. We used PCR to detect pathogens of public health importance in ticks collected from diverse regions of Kenya. 503 tick pools wer...
supported by the Special Fund for Health Research in the Public Interest,China(Grant No.201202019);the National Key Science&Technology Special Projects on Major Infectious Diseases,China(Grant No.2012ZX10004-211).
Background:Babesiosis is an uncommon but emerging tick-borne disease caused by the genus Babesia.In this case study,we report a case of human infection with a novel Babesia sp.in China.Findings:The patient in question...