Understanding the microbiome of ticks in Australia is of considerable interest given the
ongoing debate over whether Lyme disease and its causative agent, the bacterium Borrelia …

RNA viruses are abundant infectious agents and present in all domains of life. Arthropods,
including ticks, are well known as vectors of many viruses of concern for human and animal …

Besides mosquitoes, ticks are regarded as the primary source of vector-borne infectious
diseases. Indeed, a wide variety of severe infectious human diseases, including those …

In Australia, a conclusive aetiology of Lyme disease-like illness in human patients remains
elusive, despite growing numbers of people presenting with symptoms attributed to tick …

Ticks are vectors of several pathogens that can be transmitted to humans and their
geographic ranges are expanding. The exposure of ticks to new hosts in a rapidly changing …

ABSTRACT A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been identified in ticks, yet the
diversity of viruses in ticks is largely unexplored. In the United States, Amblyomma …

Ticks are vectors of a wide variety of pathogens that are implicated in mild to severe disease
in humans and other animals. Nonetheless, the full range of tick-borne pathogens is …

The increasing prevalence and expanding distribution of tick-borne viruses globally have
raised health concerns, but the full repertoire of the tick virome has not been assessed. We …

Ticks carry a wide range of known human and animal pathogens and are postulated to carry
others with the potential to cause disease. Here we report a discovery effort wherein …

Abstract Background The Australian paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) is of significant
medical and veterinary importance as a cause of dermatological and neurological disease …