Zoonotic diseases are major causes of infection related morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Of the various arthropods capable of transmitting pathogens that cause such diseases to …

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in temperate regions of North
America, Europe and Asia, and the number of reported cases has increased in many …

Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America, and both the
annual incidence and geographic range are increasing. The emergence of Lyme disease …

Using the vector tick, Ixodes dammini, we described the reservoir competence of the white-
footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, for the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi …

A dynamic population model of Ixodes scapularis, the vector of a number of tick-borne
zoonoses in North America, was developed to simulate effects of temperature on tick …

The third edition of this book has been completely revised and updated, and new chapters
have been added on Hantanvirus by Karl Johnson, on retroviruses by William Blattner, and …

The effects of global climate change on infectious diseases are hypothetical until more is
known about the degree of change in temperature and humidity that will occur. Diseases …

In the 1980s, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, and rodents were recognized as
the principal vector and reservoir hosts of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi …

Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human
animals and are" accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a …

Domestic animals and wildlife play important roles as reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens that
are transmitted to humans by ticks. Besides their role as vectors of several classes of …