Dermacentor reticulatus is a hard tick species with extraordinary biological features. It has a
high reproduction rate, a rapid developmental cycle, and is also able to overcome years of …

There is now considerable evidence that in Europe, babesiosis is an emerging infectious
disease, with some of the causative species spreading as a consequence of the increasing …

Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the
spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These infections are among the oldest known …

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

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a worldwide emerging zoonotic tick-borne pathogen
transmitted by Ixodid ticks and naturally maintained in complex and incompletely assessed …

Ticks carry numerous pathogens that, if transmitted, can cause disease in susceptible
humans and animals. The present study describes our approach on how to investigate …

The first case of human babesiosis was reported in the literature in 1957. The clinical
disease has sporadically occurred as rare case reports in North America and Europe in the …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum causes a multi-organ non-specific febrile illness referred to as
human granulocytic anaplasmosis. The epidemiologic risk of the pathogen is …

Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) have complex life cycles involving tick vectors and vertebrate
hosts. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the zoonotic circulation of TBPs. In …

Background Babesia spp. are protozoan parasites of great medical and veterinary
importance, especially in the northern Hemisphere. Ticks are known vectors of Babesia spp …