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 …

Ticks are hematophagous arachnids transmitting a wide variety of pathogens including
viruses, bacteria, and protozoans to their vertebrate hosts. The tick vector competence has to …

Among arthropod vectors, ticks transmit the most diverse human and animal pathogens,
leading to an increasing number of new challenges worldwide. Here we sequenced and …

Recent advances in climate research together with a better understanding of tick–pathogen
interactions, the distribution of ticks and the diagnosis of tick-borne pathogens raise …

Herein we review the epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBDs), their impact on
livestock health and on the economy, control and associated challenges in Uganda. Ticks …

In spite of many decades of intensive research on Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick of
Europe, several important aspects of its basic biology remain elusive, such as the factors …

Ticks and tick-borne diseases are a growing problem affecting human and animal health
worldwide. Traditional control methods, based primarily on chemical acaricides, have …

Ticks infest a variety of animal species and transmit pathogens causing disease in both
humans and animals worldwide. Tick–host–pathogen interactions have evolved through …

Babesiosis, caused by piroplasmid protozoans in the genus Babesia, is arguably the most
important vector-borne disease of livestock and companion animals and is growing in …

Bovine babesiosis caused by the tick-transmitted haemoprotozoans Babesia bovis, Babesia
bigemina and Babesia divergens commonly results in substantial cattle morbidity and …