Antibacterial peptides are secreted into the midgut lumen to provide antibacterial midgut defense in the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae)
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Pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungi to Ornithodoros erraticus and 1 Ornithodoros moubata ( Acari : Argasidae ) 2 3 4
24 25 The argasid ticks O. erraticus and O. moubata are of great medical and veterinary 26 importance because they are vectors of the African swine fever virus and several species of 27 human relapsing fever borreliae. Biocontrol of these ticks using entomopathogenic fungi has not 28 been previously reported. We examined the pathogenicity to different developmental stages of 29 these two argasi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Entomology and Zoology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-6862,1347-605X
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2005.391