‘Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii’, an endosymbiont of the tick Ixodes ricinus with a unique intramitochondrial lifestyle

Davide Sassera, Tiziana Beninati, Claudio Bandi, +4

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

GeneticsEntomologyTick Ixodes RicinusTick-borne DiseasePhylogenetic Analysis +14

Comparative Analysis of the Two Acinetobacter baumannii Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) Schemes

Stefano Gaiarsa, Gherard Batisti Biffignandi, Eliana Pia Esposito, +5

Frontiers in Microbiology

Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

Davide Sassera, Nathan Lo, Sara Epis, +14

Molecular Biology and Evolution

A large-scale genomic snapshot of Klebsiella spp. isolates in Northern Italy reveals limited transmission between clinical and non-clinical settings

Harry A. Thorpe, Ross D. Booton, Teemu Kallonen, +18

Nature Microbiology

Widespread distribution and high prevalence of an alpha‐proteobacterial symbiont in the tick <i>Ixodes ricinus</i>

Nathan Lo, Tiziana Beninati, Davide Sassera, +13

Environmental Microbiology

Parasitic DiseaseNorthern AfricaEntomologyVector-borne PathogenTick-borne Disease +14

<i>Midichloria mitochondrii</i>is widespread in hard ticks (Ixodidae) and resides in the mitochondria of phylogenetically diverse species

Sara Epis, Davide Sassera, Tiziana Beninati, +11

Parasitology

“Candidatus Midichloriaceae” fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an Ecologically Widespread Clade of Intracellular Alphaproteobacteria

Matteo Montagna, Davide Sassera, Sara Epis, +7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Humans parasitized by the hard tick<i>Ixodes ricinus</i>are seropositive to<i>Midichloria mitochondrii</i>: is<i>Midichloria</i>a novel pathogen, or just a marker of tick bite?

Mara Mariconti, Sara Epis, Paolo Gaibani, +9

Pathogens and Global Health

Parasitic DiseaseNovel PathogenTick BiteEntomologyImmunology +15

ABC transporters are involved in defense against permethrin insecticide in the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi

Sara Epis, Daniele Porretta, Valentina Mastrantonio, +9

Parasites & Vectors

“ <i>Candidatus</i> Midichloria” Endosymbionts Bloom after the Blood Meal of the Host, the Hard Tick <i>Ixodes ricinus</i>

Davide Sassera, Nathan Lo, Edwin A. P. Bouman, +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

EntomologyMolecular BiologyQuantitative PcrTick Ixodes RicinusTick-borne Disease +14