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 …

Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease that predominantly occurs in temperate regions of
the northern hemisphere and is primarily caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi in …

Ixodes ticks maintain a large and diverse array of human pathogens in the enzootic cycle,
including Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti. Despite the poor ecological fitness of B …

Introduction Ticks are the most common arthropod vectors of both human and animal
diseases in Europe, and the Ixodes ricinus tick species is able to transmit a large number of …

The zoonosis Q fever is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii.
Besides the main transmission route via inhalation of contaminated aerosols, ticks are …

Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia group spirochete that is transmitted by the
same hard-bodied (ixodid) tick species that transmit the agents of Lyme disease. It was …

Lyme borreliosis is the most common zoonotic disease transmitted by ticks in Europe and
North America. Despite having multiple tick vectors, the causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi …

Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging tick-borne pathogen in the Northern Hemisphere and is
the causative agent of Borrelia miyamotoi disease (BMD). Borrelia miyamotoi is vectored by …

Most tick‐borne pathogens (TBPs) are secondarily acquired by ticks during feeding on
infected hosts, which imposes 'priority effect'constraints, as arrival order influences the …

Abstract 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis' is an uncultured emerging bacterium that is
provisionally included in the family Anaplasmataceae. In Europe, it is transmitted by Ixodes …