Article
Diversity of the bacterial and viral communities in the tropical horse tick, <i>Dermacentor nitens</i> in Colombia
2023-05-05
Abstract excerpt
Ticks are obligatory hematophagous ectoparasites that transmit pathogens among various vertebrates, including humans. The composition of the microbial and viral communities in addition to the pathogenic microorganisms is highly diverse in ticks, but the factors driving the diversity are not well understood. The tropical horse tick, Dermacentor nitens , is distributed throughout the Americas and it is recognized a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 54389ae3-0b05-5e81-b993-bcc379dfcaab
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.05.04.539352
