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Meghan E Hermance

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Obellianne C, Norman P, Esteves E, Hermance M
Parasit Vectors . 2024 Jun; 17(1):259. PMID: 38879603
Background: Powassan virus, a North American tick-borne flavivirus, can cause severe neuroinvasive disease in humans. While Ixodes scapularis are the primary vectors of Powassan virus lineage II (POWV II), also...
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Raney W, Herslebs E, Langohr I, Stone M, Hermance M
Front Cell Infect Microbiol . 2022 Jul; 12:923914. PMID: 35846754
The Asian longhorned tick, , is an ixodid tick native to East Asia that was first detected in North America outside a port of entry in 2017. This invasive species...
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Raney W, Perry J, Hermance M
Emerg Infect Dis . 2022 Feb; 28(3):726-729. PMID: 35202534
We demonstrated experimental acquisition and transmission of Heartland bandavirus by Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks. Virus was detected in tick salivary gland and midgut tissues. A total of 80% of mice exposed...
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Santos R, Hermance M, Reynolds E, Thangamani S
Sci Rep . 2021 Oct; 11(1):20873. PMID: 34686683
Powassan virus (POWV) is a neuroinvasive flavivirus transmitted to mammals by the bite of ixodid ticks. In this study, we sought to investigate the impact of tick salivary gland extract...
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Hermance M, Hart C, Esterly A, Reynolds E, Bhaskar J, Thangamani S
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2020 Jun; 14(6):e0008359. PMID: 32542017
Powassan virus (POWV) is a tick-borne flavivirus that encompasses two genetic lineages, POWV (Lineage I) and deer tick virus (DTV, Lineage II). In recent years, the incidence of reported POWV...
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Hermance M, Thangamani S
Front Cell Infect Microbiol . 2020 May; 10:172. PMID: 32411615
Skin is the interface between an attached, feeding tick and a host; consequently, it is the first line of defense against invading pathogenic microorganisms that are delivered to a vertebrate...
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Mendell N, Reynolds E, Blanton L, Hermance M, Londono A, Hart C, et al.
Insects . 2019 Sep; 10(10). PMID: 31557808
Cases of tick-borne diseases, including spotted fever rickettsioses, borreliosis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, in the United States and territories have more than doubled from 2004 to 2016 and account for...
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Hermance M, Widen S, Wood T, Thangamani S
Sci Rep . 2019 Sep; 9(1):13110. PMID: 31511580
Successful tick feeding is facilitated by an assortment of pharmacologically-active factors in tick saliva that create an immunologically privileged micro-environment in the host's skin. Through a process known as saliva-assisted...
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Hermance M, Thangamani S
Viruses . 2018 Jul; 10(7). PMID: 29986483
Tick-borne viral diseases continue to emerge in the United States, as clearly evident from the increase in Powassan encephalitis virus, Heartland virus, and Bourbon virus infections. Tick-borne flaviviruses (TBFVs) are...
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Thangamani S, Hermance M, Santos R, Slovak M, Heinze D, Widen S, et al.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol . 2017 Dec; 7:494. PMID: 29250492
Emerging and re-emerging diseases transmitted by blood feeding arthropods are significant global public health problems. Ticks transmit the greatest variety of pathogenic microorganisms of any blood feeding arthropod. Infectious agents...