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 …

Ticks exist on all continents and carry more zoonotic pathogens than any other type of
vector. Ticks spend most of their lives in the external environment away from the host and …

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 …

Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by
genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread …

Emerging vector-borne diseases are an important issue in global health. Many vector-borne
pathogens have appeared in new regions in the past two decades, while many endemic …

The human population is growing, requiring more space for food production, and needing
more animals to feed it. Emerging infectious diseases are increasing, causing losses in both …

The evidence that climate warming is changing the distribution of Ixodes ticks and the
pathogens they transmit is reviewed and evaluated. The primary approaches are either …

Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th
Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you'll use long after your medical student days …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three
major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria:(i) EIDs associated with “spill-over” …

Abstract" Emerging" infectious diseases can be defined as infections that have newly
appeared in a population or have existed but are rapidly increasing in incidence or …