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Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity

BACKGROUND: Ornithodoros turicata is a veterinary and medically important argasid tick that is recognized as a vector of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae and African swine fever virus. Historic collections of O. turicata have been recorded from Latin America to the southern United S...

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Autores principales: Donaldson, Taylor G., Pèrez de León, Adalberto A., Li, Andrew I., Castro-Arellano, Ivan, Wozniak, Edward, Boyle, William K., Hargrove, Reid, Wilder, Hannah K., Kim, Hee J., Teel, Pete D., Lopez, Job E.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26829327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004383
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author Donaldson, Taylor G.
Pèrez de León, Adalberto A.
Li, Andrew I.
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
Wozniak, Edward
Boyle, William K.
Hargrove, Reid
Wilder, Hannah K.
Kim, Hee J.
Teel, Pete D.
Lopez, Job E.
author_facet Donaldson, Taylor G.
Pèrez de León, Adalberto A.
Li, Andrew I.
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
Wozniak, Edward
Boyle, William K.
Hargrove, Reid
Wilder, Hannah K.
Kim, Hee J.
Teel, Pete D.
Lopez, Job E.
author_sort Donaldson, Taylor G.
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description BACKGROUND: Ornithodoros turicata is a veterinary and medically important argasid tick that is recognized as a vector of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae and African swine fever virus. Historic collections of O. turicata have been recorded from Latin America to the southern United States. However, the geographic distribution of this vector is poorly understood in relation to environmental variables, their hosts, and consequently the pathogens they transmit. METHODOLOGY: Localities of O. turicata were generated by performing literature searches, evaluating records from the United States National Tick Collection and the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, and by conducting field studies. Maximum entropy species distribution modeling (Maxent) was used to predict the current distribution of O. turicata. Vertebrate host diversity and GIS analyses of their distributions were used to ascertain the area of shared occupancy of both the hosts and vector. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: Our results predicted previously unrecognized regions of the United States with habitat that may maintain O. turicata and could guide future surveillance efforts for a tick capable of transmitting high–consequence pathogens to human and animal populations.
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spelling pubmed-47348302016-02-04 Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity Donaldson, Taylor G. Pèrez de León, Adalberto A. Li, Andrew I. Castro-Arellano, Ivan Wozniak, Edward Boyle, William K. Hargrove, Reid Wilder, Hannah K. Kim, Hee J. Teel, Pete D. Lopez, Job E. PLoS Negl Trop Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Ornithodoros turicata is a veterinary and medically important argasid tick that is recognized as a vector of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae and African swine fever virus. Historic collections of O. turicata have been recorded from Latin America to the southern United States. However, the geographic distribution of this vector is poorly understood in relation to environmental variables, their hosts, and consequently the pathogens they transmit. METHODOLOGY: Localities of O. turicata were generated by performing literature searches, evaluating records from the United States National Tick Collection and the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, and by conducting field studies. Maximum entropy species distribution modeling (Maxent) was used to predict the current distribution of O. turicata. Vertebrate host diversity and GIS analyses of their distributions were used to ascertain the area of shared occupancy of both the hosts and vector. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: Our results predicted previously unrecognized regions of the United States with habitat that may maintain O. turicata and could guide future surveillance efforts for a tick capable of transmitting high–consequence pathogens to human and animal populations. Public Library of Science 2016-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4734830/ /pubmed/26829327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004383 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication.
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Donaldson, Taylor G.
Pèrez de León, Adalberto A.
Li, Andrew I.
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
Wozniak, Edward
Boyle, William K.
Hargrove, Reid
Wilder, Hannah K.
Kim, Hee J.
Teel, Pete D.
Lopez, Job E.
Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title_full Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title_fullStr Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title_short Assessment of the Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae): Climate Variation and Host Diversity
title_sort assessment of the geographic distribution of ornithodoros turicata (argasidae): climate variation and host diversity
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26829327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004383
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