Background Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease (TBD) in France.
Forestry workers are at high risk of TBD because of frequent exposure to tick bites. Aim We …

Recent rise in tick-borne diseases in many parts of Europe is a phenomenon in need of an
explanation. We analyzed temporal trends in spatial distribution of a population at risk of …

Introduction. Limited information is available about the presence of tick-borne pathogens in
urban parks in Italy. To fill this gap, ticks were collected in a public park in Rome over a 1 …

Tick-borne pathogens cause diseases in animals and humans, and tick-borne disease
incidence is increasing in many parts of the world. There is a need to assess the distribution …

Background Ixodes ricinus is the main vector in Europe of human-pathogenic Lyme
borreliosis (LB) spirochaetes, the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and other pathogens …

Background Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a disease which can lead to severe
neurological symptoms, caused by the TBE virus (TBEV). The natural transmission cycle …

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most commonly reported tick-borne disease in Germany. In 9/16
states, notification of erythema migrans (EM), acute neuroborreliosis (NB) and Lyme arthritis …

During its lifecycle, the generalist Ixodes ricinus takes up three blood meals from a wide
selection of vertebrate hosts, some of which are reservoirs for multiple vector-associated …

Most tick‐related studies in Europe have been conducted in nonurban areas, but ticks and
tick‐borne pathogens also occur in urban green spaces. From a public health perspective …

Abstract In total, 1,000 Ixodes ricinus L. ticks were collected from a small recreational forest
area in central Germany (Thuringia) and investigated for the presence of Borrelia spp …