Tick cell lines are increasingly used in many fields of tick and tick-borne disease research.
The Tick Cell Biobank was established in 2009 to facilitate the development and uptake of …

Although tick-borne infectious diseases threaten human and animal health worldwide, with
constantly increasing incidence, little knowledge is available regarding vector–pathogen …

Frankliniella occidentalis (western flower thrips [WFT]) and Thrips tabaci (onion thrips [OT])
are insect species that greatly impact horticultural crops through direct damage and their …

Background Ticks act as important vectors of infectious agents, and several emerging tick-
borne viruses have recently been identified to be associated with human diseases in …

Tick-borne viruses have emerged recently in many parts of the world, and the discoveries of
novel tick-borne viruses have been accelerated by the development of high-throughput …

Ticks play an important role in transmitting many different emerging zoonotic pathogens that
pose a significant threat to human and animal health. In Switzerland and abroad, the …

Orthopteran insects have high reproductive rates leading to boom-bust population dynamics
with high local densities that are ideal for short, episodic disease epidemics. Viruses are …

Ticks (order: Ixodida) are a highly diverse and ecologically important group of ectoparasitic
blood-feeding organisms. One such species, the seabird tick (Ixodes uriae), is widely …

Fleas are important vectors of zoonotic disease. However, little is known about the natural
diversity and abundance of flea viruses, particularly in the absence of disease associations …

The recent emergence of novel tick-borne RNA viruses has complicated the epidemiological
landscape of tick-borne infectious diseases, posing a significant challenge to public health …