• Acaricides resistance in ticks : selection, diagnosis, mechanisms, and mitigation 

      Obaid, Muhammad Kashif; Islam, Nabila; Alouffi, Abdulaziz; Khan, Alam Zeb; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Tanaka, Tetsuya; Ali, Abid (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Ticks are blood-feeding ecto-parasites that have a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Ticks cause economic losses in the form of reduced blood, meat and dairy products, as well as ...
    • Achados patológicos e imuno-histoquímicos em bovinos com doença granulomatosa sistêmica pelo consumo de Vicia villosa (Leg. Papilionoidease) no Rio Grande do Sul 

      Sonne, Luciana; Raymundo, Djeison Lutier; Boabaid, Fabiana M.; Watanabe, Tatiane Terumi Negrão; Oliveira, Luiz Gustavo Schneider; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Driemeier, David (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      A doença granulomatosa sistêmica associada ao consumo de Vicia villosa (Leg. Papilionoideae) foi diagnosticada em 5 bovinos no período de 2005 a 2008. Os bovinos apresentavam alopecia, lesões crostosas na pele, prurido, ...
    • Across intra-mammalian stages of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica: a proteomic study 

      Sánchez Di Maggio, Lucía; Tirloni, Lucas; M. Pinto, Antonio F.; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Yates, Jonh R.; Benavides, Uruguaysito; Carmona, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Berasain, Patrícia (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      Fasciola hepatica is the agent of fasciolosis, a foodborne zoonosis that affects livestock production and human health. Although flukicidal drugs are available, re-infection and expanding resistance to triclabendazole ...
    • Aedes fluviatilis cell lines as new tools to study metabolic and immune interactions in mosquito-Wolbachia symbiosis 

      Calixto, Christiano; Silva, Jhenifer N.; Sampaio, Angélica Fernandes Arcanjo; Nogueira, Cintia Lopes; Abreu, Leonardo Araujo de; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de; Gondim, Katia Calp; Moraes, Bruno; Carvalho, Stephanie Serafim de; Silva, Renato Martins da; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Moreira, Luciano A.; Logullo, Carlos (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the present work, we established two novel embryonic cell lines from the mosquito Aedes fluviatilis containing or not the naturally occurring symbiont bacteria Wolbachia, which were called wAflu1 and Aflu2, respectively. ...
    • Amblyomma americanum serpin 27 (AAS27) is a tick salivary anti-inflammatory protein secreted into the host during feeding 

      Tirloni, Lucas; Kim, Tae Kwon; Oliveira, Markus Berger; Termignoni, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Mulenga, Albert (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Ticks successfully feed and transmit pathogens by injecting pharmacological compounds in saliva to thwart host defenses. We have previously used LC-MS/MS to identify proteins that are present in saliva of unfed Amblyomma ...
    • ATP binding cassette transporter mediates both heme and pesticide detoxification in tick midgut cells 

      Lara, Flávio Alves; Pohl, Paula Cristiane; Gandara, Ana Caroline; Ferreira, Jessica da Silva; Nascimento-Silva, Maria Clara; Bechara, Gervásio Henrique; Sorgine, Marcos Henrique Ferreira; Almeida, Igor Correia de; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      In ticks, the digestion of blood occurs intracellularly and proteolytic digestion of hemoglobin takes place in a dedicated type of lysosome, the digest vesicle, followed by transfer of the heme moiety of hemoglobin to a ...
    • A Boophilus microplus vitellin-degrading cysteine endopeptidase 

      Seixas, Adriana; Santos, Patricia Coutinho dos; Velloso, Fernando F.; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Masuda, Aoi; Horn, Fabiana; Termignoni, Carlos (2003) [Artigo de periódico]
      Here we describe the purification and characterization of a vitellin (VT) degrading cysteine endopeptidase (VTDCE) from eggs of the hard tick Boophilus microplus. A homogeneous enzyme preparation was obtained by chromatographic ...
    • Caracterização da resistência para acaricidas no carrapato Boophilus microplus 

      Freitas, Daniela Reis Joaquim de; Pohl, Paula Cristiane; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2005) [Artigo de periódico]
      Boophilus microplus é um ectoparasita hematófago de bovinos, presente em áreas tropicais e subtropicais no mundo. É causador de enormes perdas econômicas pela espoliação que causa ao hospedeiro, além de ser transmissor de ...
    • Carbohydrate metabolic compensation coupled to high tolerance to oxidative stress in ticks 

      Noce, Bárbara Pitta Della; Uhl, Marcelle Vianna de Carvalho; Machado, Josias A.; Waltero, Camila Fernanda; Abreu, Leonardo Araujo de; Silva, Renato Martins da; Fonseca, Rodrigo N. da; Barros, Cintia Monteiro de; Sabadin, Gabriela Alves; Konnai, Satoru; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Ohashi, Kazuhiko; Logullo, Carlos (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
    • cDNA cloning, expression and characterization of a Boophilus microplus paramyosin. 

      Ferreira, Carlos Alexandre Sanchez; Barbosa, M. C.; Silveira, Thiago Cesar Lima; Valenzuela, J.G.; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Masuda, Aoi (2002) [Artigo de periódico]
      The tick Boophilus microplus is a 1-host tick that causes important losses to bovine herds, and protective antigens are being investigated in order to develop vaccines that avoid the use of acaricides. Paramyosins are ...
    • Changes in saliva protein profile throughout Rhipicephalus microplus blood feeding 

      Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Lu, Stephen; Pinto, Antonio Frederico Michel; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Yates III, John R.; Mulenga, Albert; Termignoni, Carlos; Ribeiro, José Marcos Chaves; Tirloni, Lucas (2024) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: When feeding on a vertebrate host, ticks secrete saliva, which is a complex mixture of proteins, lipids, and other molecules. Tick saliva assists the vector in modulating host hemostasis, immunity, and tissue ...
    • Control of redox homeostasis in tick blood feeding 

      Sabadin, Gabriela Alves; Xavier, Marina Amaral; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction: Ticks are hematophagous ectoparasites that cause significate economical losses. Acaricide application is the main method to tick control. However, it causes environmental contamination and selects resistant ...
    • Coxiella endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus microplus modulates tick physiology with a major impact in blood feeding capacity 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Tirloni, Lucas; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Braz, Glória Regina Cardoso; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Silva, Lucas André Dedavid e; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the past decade, metagenomics studies exploring tick microbiota have revealed widespread interactions between bacteria and arthropods, including symbiotic interactions. Functional studies showed that obligate endosymbionts ...
    • A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Nunes, Rodrigo Dutra; Schama, Renata; Albano, Rodolpho Mattos; Tirloni, Lucas; Oldiges, Daiane Patrícia; Vieira, Ricardo Pilz; Oliveira, Wanderson Henrique Cruz; Leite, Milane de Souza; Gonzales, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Martins, Orlando; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite that causes important economic losses in livestock. Different species of ticks harbor a symbiont bacterium of the genus Coxiella. It was showed that ...
    • Cross-species immunoprotective antigens (subolesin, ferritin 2 and P0) provide protection against Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato 

      Zeb, Ismail; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Israr, Muhammad; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Ali, Abid (2024) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: Tick control is mostly hampered by the rise of acaricide-resistant tick populations. Significant efforts have focused on developing alternative control methods, including cross-species protective and/or ...
    • Dataset supporting the proteomic differences found between excretion/secretion products from two isolates of Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles (NEJ) derived from different snail hosts 

      Sánchez Di Maggio, Lucía; Tirloni, Lucas; Pinto, Antonio Frederico Michel; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Yates III, John R.; Carmona, Carlos; Berasain, Patrícia; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Here we present the proteomic profile datasets of two Fasciola hepatica NEJ isolates derived from different snail hosts: Lymnaea viatrix and Pseudosuccinea columella. The data used in the analysis are related to the article ...
    • Detecção do virus da diarréia bovina em carrapatos Rhipicephalus (boophilus) microplus alimentados em bovino persistentemente infectado 

      Almeida, Laura Lopes de; Marks, Fernanda Simone; Reck Junior, José; Santos, Adriana da Silva; Gomes, Danilo Carloto; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Driemeier, David; Canal, Cláudio Wageck (2010) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is one of the main agents that cause economical losses in cattle worldwide. Congenitally infected calves that are born persistently infected (PI) to BVDV are the main sources ...
    • Detecção do vírus da diarreia viral bovina em carrapatos Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus alimentados em bovino persistentemente infectado 

      Almeida, Laura Lopes de; Marks, Fernanda Simone; Reck Junior, José; Santos, Adriana da Silva; Gomes, Danilo Carloto; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Driemeier, David; Canal, Cláudio Wageck (2010) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is one of the main agents that cause economical losses in cattle worldwide. Congenitally infected calves that are born persistently infected (PI) to BVDV are the main sources ...
    • Ecology and genetic identification of freshwater turtles in Pakistan 

      Khan, Muhammad Qayash; Yaseen; Zahid, Hafsa; Numan, Muhammad; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Ali, Abid (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: The turtle population plays an important role in sustaining the water ecosystem by minimizing pollution from water. The identification and molecular investigation of freshwater fauna is essential for conservation ...
    • Editorial : The role of saliva in arthropod-host-pathogen relationships 

      Tirloni, Lucas; Calvo, Eric; Konnai, Satoru; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2021) [Texto de apresentação/encerramento]