Tick-Borne Pathogens Shape the Native Microbiome Within Tick Vectors

Abdulsalam Adegoke, Deepak Kumar, Cailyn G Bobo, +4

Microorganisms

Hematophagy and tick-borne Rickettsial pathogen shape the microbial community structure and predicted functions within the tick vector, Amblyomma maculatum

Abdulsalam Adegoke, Deepak Kumar, Khemraj Budachetri, +1

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Rickettsia parkeri hijacks tick hemocytes to manipulate cellular and humoral transcriptional responses

Abdulsalam Adegoke, José M. C. Ribeiro, Sidney Brown, +2

Frontiers in Immunology

Recently Evolved Francisella-Like Endosymbiont Outcompetes an Ancient and Evolutionarily Associated Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont in the Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Linked to the Alpha-Gal Syndrome

Deepak Kumar, Surendra Raj Sharma, Abdulsalam Adegoke, +4

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

An Exploratory Study on the Microbiome of Northern and Southern Populations of Ixodes scapularis Ticks Predicts Changes and Unique Bacterial Interactions

Deepak Kumar, Latoyia P. Downs, Abdulsalam Adegoke, +5

Pathogens

<i>Ehrlichia chaffeensis</i> Co-Opts Phagocytic Hemocytes for Systemic Dissemination in the Lone Star Tick, <i>Amblyomma americanum</i>

Abdulsalam Adegoke, Julia Hanson, Ryan C. Smith, +1

Journal of Innate Immunity

Rickettsia parkeri infection modulates the sialome and ovariome of the Gulf coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum

Melina Garcia Guizzo, Khemraj Budachetri, Abdulsalam Adegoke, +2

Frontiers in Microbiology

Tick innate immune responses to hematophagy and Ehrlichia infection at single-cell resolution

Abdulsalam Adegoke, José M. C. Ribeiro, Ryan C. Smith, +1

Frontiers in Immunology