Emerging tick-borne diseases

S Madison-Antenucci, LD Kramer… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

A El-Sayed, M Kamel - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020 - Springer
Global warming and the associated climate changes are predictable. They are enhanced by
burning of fossil fuels and the emission of huge amounts of CO 2 gas which resulted in …

Impact of land use changes and habitat fragmentation on the eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases

MA Diuk-Wasser, MC VanAcker… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Forecasting zoonotic infectious disease response to climate change: mosquito vectors and a changing environment

AW Bartlow, C Manore, C Xu, KA Kaufeld… - Veterinary …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases are changing due to the environment and altered interactions among
hosts, reservoirs, vectors, and pathogens. This is particularly true for zoonotic diseases that …

Update on the intricate tango between tick microbiomes and tick‐borne pathogens

SI Bonnet, T Pollet - Parasite immunology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of high‐throughput NGS technologies,(ie, next‐generation
sequencing) has highlighted the complexity of tick microbial communities—which include …

Recent advances in tick antigen discovery and anti-tick vaccine development

MN Abbas, MA Jmel, I Mekki, I Dijkgraaf… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ticks can seriously affect human and animal health around the globe, causing significant
economic losses each year. Chemical acaricides are widely used to control ticks, which …

The control of Hyalomma ticks, vectors of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus: Where are we now and where are we going?

SI Bonnet, G Vourc'h, A Raffetin, A Falchi… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
At a time of major global, societal, and environmental changes, the shifting distribution of
pathogen vectors represents a real danger in certain regions of the world as generating …

Hemorrhagic fever viruses: Pathogenesis, therapeutics, and emerging and re-emerging potential

L Flórez-Álvarez, EE de Souza, VF Botosso… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) pose a threat to global public health owing to the
emergence and re-emergence of highly fatal diseases. Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) …

Potential mechanisms of transmission of tick-borne viruses at the virus-tick interface

M Maqbool, MS Sajid, M Saqib, FR Anjum… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ticks (Acari; Ixodidae) are the second most important vector for transmission of pathogens to
humans, livestock, and wildlife. Ticks as vectors for viruses have been reported many times …

Ticks home in on body heat: A new understanding of Haller's organ and repellent action

AL Carr, VL Salgado - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Ticks are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of disease to humans and animals. Tick host
detection is mainly ascribed to Haller's organ, a complex sensory structure on the tick foreleg …