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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Année : 2017

The essential role of tick salivary glands and saliva in tick feeding and pathogen transmission

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As long-term pool feeders, ticks have developed myriad strategies to remain discreetly but solidly attached to their hosts for the duration of their blood meal. The critical biological material that dampens host defenses and facilitates the flow of blood-thus assuring adequate feeding-is tick saliva. Saliva exhibits cytolytic, vasodilator, anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, and immunosuppressive activity. This essential fluid is secreted by the salivary glands, which also mediate several other biological functions, including secretion of cement and hygroscopic components, as well as the watery component of blood as regards hard ticks. When salivary glands are invaded by tick-borne pathogens, pathogens may be transmitted via saliva, which is injected alternately with blood uptake during the tick bite. Both salivary glands and saliva thus play a key role in transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to vertebrate hosts. During their long co-evolution with ticks and vertebrate hosts, microorganisms have indeed developed various strategies to exploit tick salivary molecules to ensure both acquisition by ticks and transmission, local infection and systemic dissemination within the vertebrate host.
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Ladislav Simo, Maria Kazimirova, Jennifer Richardson, Sarah Bonnet. The essential role of tick salivary glands and saliva in tick feeding and pathogen transmission. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2017, 7, ⟨10.3389/fcimb.2017.00281⟩. ⟨hal-01608039⟩
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