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- Ornithodoros_savignyi abstract "Ornithodoros savignyi (Audouin, 1827) aka Sand tampan or African eyed tampan or Kalahari sand tampan, is one of some 37 species in the genus Ornithodoros and is a soft tick with a leathery, mammillated integument, causing paralysis and tampan toxicosis, two unrelated conditions. The sand tampan is an ectoparasite on humans, their livestock and wild animals, including birds and bats. Occurring in semi-desert areas of Africa, Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Persian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka and into Asia, it is able to survive for lengthy periods without feeding, spending most of its life burrowed under sand or loose soil, often in wait for animals that rest or sleep under trees or in the lee of rocks, but also in places where people or their animals congregate such as marketplaces, places of worship, cattle kraals and village squares. The timing of its activity is geared to coincide with that of potential hosts, but hot sunny conditions are usually avoided. Because of its habit of feeding and dropping from its host, adult dispersal is limited, whereas larvae may remain attached to their hosts for several days. During its life cycle it will feed on multiple hosts between moults.This species is of interest because of the pathogens it carries, and its salivary apyrases which prevent platelet activation and aggregation, that is, blood-clotting. In humans the tick may cause dermatitis, fever and lymphadenitis. It is also a carrier of Borrelia, a spirochaete bacterium, and is a carrier of a flavivirus causing Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever (AHFV). The closely related Kyasanur Forest disease virus (KFDV) is endemic to certain regions of India. That AHFV and KFDV diverged some 700 years ago would suggest that unknown tick-borne hemorrhagic/encephalitic viruses may exist between Saudi Arabia and India.Soft ticks of the family Argasidae lack the hard scutum or shield present in hard ticks of the family Ixodidae. Their gnathosoma or mouth structure is located on the underside of the body and is not readily visible. Their feeding method differs from that of the hard ticks in that they do not embed a capitulum in the host, but make an incision through the skin and sip the oozing blood. The feeding lasts up to 30 minutes during which time their body weight increases tenfold. Sand tampans by their concerted attack in large numbers are able to paralyse and kill sizeable mammals, especially penned livestock, by introducing toxins during feeding, mainly through coxal gland secretions, leading to symptoms similar to those of anaphylactic shock in older animals. These toxins affect the cardiac system, causing Mobitz type atrial-ventricular blocks and ventricular tachycardia. The defensins employed by O. savignyi are being studied for developing multifunctional peptides - shorter peptides derived from the defensin isoform 2 (OsDef2) have useful antibacterial, antioxidant, and cytotoxic properties.Ornithodoros spp are found worldwide in semi-arid regions, living in burrows, caves, dens, cliffsides, and bird colonies. O. savignyi and O. coriaceus are exceptional in having eyes. O. coriaceus occurs under hillside scrub oak from northern California and Nevada to Mexico, in deer beds under trees and in the lee of large rocks. O. gurneyi favours tree-shaded sand in the deserts of Australia, resting places of kangaroos and people. O. porcinus is found on warthogs, bushpigs and other pig species and occurs throughout Africa in suitable habitats - it plays a role in transmitting the virus causing African swine fever which in 2013 was found 35 km north of Pretoria. A salticid spider, Phidippus rimator, has been recorded from northern California as predating Ornithodoros coriaceus and is only the second predator recorded for this species.O. savignyi was named after the zoologist Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny, a contemporary of Jean Victoire Audouin's.Since they are attracted by carbon dioxide, dry ice may be used for their collection, or they may be sifted from the soil. Ornithodoros tampans also fluoresce under ultraviolet light.".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi binomialAuthority Jean_Victoire_Audouin.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi class Acari.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi class Arachnid.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi family Argasidae.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi kingdom Animal.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi order Tick.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi phylum Arthropod.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi phylum Chelicerata.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi synonym "*Ornithodoros pavimentosus Neumann, 1901".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi thumbnail Ornithodoros-savignyi.jpg?width=300.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageExternalLink pdf.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageExternalLink identification_complete_1.pdf.
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- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageRevisionID "706551931".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Acari.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink African_swine_fever_virus.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Alkhurma_virus.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Anaphylaxis.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Apyrase.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Arachnid.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Argasidae.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Asia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Borrelia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Acari.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Parasites.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ticks.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Chelicerata.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Coagulation.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Coxal_gland.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Defensin.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Dry_ice.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Flavivirus.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Gnathosoma.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Human_impact_on_the_environment.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Ixodidae.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Jean_Victoire_Audouin.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Jumping_spider.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Kyasanur_forest_disease.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Lymphadenopathy.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Marie_Jules_César_Savigny.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Nevada.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Ornithodoros.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Parasitism.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Peptide.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Persian_Gulf.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Pretoria.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Quercus_berberidifolia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Saudi_Arabia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Second-degree_atrioventricular_block.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Silk_Road.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Spirochaete.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Tick.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLink Ventricular_tachycardia.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ornithodoros savignyi".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi binomial "Ornithodoros savignyi".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi binomialAuthority "Audouin, 1827".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi classis "Arachnida".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi familia Argasidae.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi genus "Ornithodoros".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi imageCaption "Dorsal view of adult female".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi name "Ornithodoros savignyi".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi ordo Tick.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi phylum "Arthropoda".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi regnum "Animalia".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi species "O. savignyi".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi subclassis Acari.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi subfamilia Argasidae.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi subphylum Chelicerata.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi synonyms "*Ornithodoros pavimentosus Neumann, 1901".
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- Ornithodoros_savignyi subject Category:Acari.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi subject Category:Parasites.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi subject Category:Ticks.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi hypernym Tick.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Animal.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Arachnid.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Eukaryote.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Species.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Thing.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Q19088.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi type Q729.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi comment "Ornithodoros savignyi (Audouin, 1827) aka Sand tampan or African eyed tampan or Kalahari sand tampan, is one of some 37 species in the genus Ornithodoros and is a soft tick with a leathery, mammillated integument, causing paralysis and tampan toxicosis, two unrelated conditions. The sand tampan is an ectoparasite on humans, their livestock and wild animals, including birds and bats.".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi label "Ornithodoros savignyi".
- Ornithodoros_savignyi wasDerivedFrom Ornithodoros_savignyi?oldid=706551931.
- Ornithodoros_savignyi depiction Ornithodoros-savignyi.jpg.