The phrase "a quest to tick" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where someone is trying to complete a checklist or achieve specific goals, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "She embarked on a quest to tick all the boxes on her travel itinerary before the trip ended."
Alternatives: "a mission to complete" or "an effort to fulfill".
Thus, risk for exposure to a questing tick infected by pathogenic spirochetes on the pasture is 40-fold and 54-fold smaller than on the meadow and fallow land, respectively.
Data here provides an interesting foundation on the range of candidate proteins to be screened in the quest to discover anti-tick target vaccine antigens.
To estimate tick density, we collected questing ticks and extrapolated the number per hour of flagging.
In 1 questing I. ricinus tick at the nymphal stage, we detected a groEL sequence (KF031399) identical to a sequence isolated from humans with human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Europe (AF033101).
Briefly, the variables of this model were densities of questing and feeding tick larvae, nymphs and adults.
Although Bartonella spp.transmission by ticks has not been proven, several recent studies have identified Bartonella DNA in questing ticks, ticks attached to animals, and ticks attached to humans (1, 2, 14 ).
Most sites were revisited once in October of 2007 or 2008, as part of another study to collect more questing adult ticks by flagging (dragging a cloth "flag" attached to a pole), but these data are included here.
To better characterize B. lusitaniae circulating in ticks and lizards from Slovak Karst, the fla gene from a B. burgdorferi s. l. positive questing adult tick and skin biopsy specimen from collar scale was amplified and sequenced.
The infection rate of Anaplasma phagocytophilum showed the opposite result with a high prevalence in questing ticks in localities with a high density of wild cervids compared to localities with lower density.
An obligate intracellular gamma-proteobacterium was isolated from the actively questing hard tick Ixodes ricinus using mammalian and amphibian cell lines.
