Although segmented and unsegmented RNA viruses are commonplace, the evolutionary
links between these two very different forms of genome organization are unclear. We report …

The emergence of Lyme borreliosis as a public health burden within the last two decades
has stimulated renewed interest in tick-borne infections. This attention towards ticks, coupled …

The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato was assessed in a focus of Lyme
borreliosis in southern Britain dominated by game birds. Ticks, rodents, and pheasants were …

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 …

The contribution of migratory and resident birds to the introduction of Lyme disease will vary
with the degree to which various species expose themselves to, and are infested by, juvenile …

To determine if eastern North American Ixodes dammini, like related ticks in Eurasia,
maintain tick-borne encephalitis group viruses, we analyzed ticks collected from sites where …

Until the recent emergence of two human-pathogenic tick-borne phleboviruses
(TBPVs)(severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus [SFTSV] and Heartland virus) …

Ticks transmit more pathogens to humans and animals than any other arthropod. We
describe the 2.1 Gbp nuclear genome of the tick, Ixodes scapularis (Say), which vectors …

To determine whether relapsing fever–like spirochetes associated with hard ticks may infect
Ixodes ricinus ticks in central Europe, we screened questing ticks for 16S rDNA similar to …

Arboviruses differ from other viruses in their need to replicate in both vertebrate and
invertebrate hosts. The invertebrate is a blood-sucking arthropod that is competent to …