Lyme disease is a perfect model of the complex relationship between host, vector, and the
vector-borne bacteria. Both dogs and horses in Romania are exposed to infection. The aim …

Introduction. During feeding, the tick sucks blood from the host along with the pathogens that
are in the blood, simultaneously exchanging its own pathogens with the host. Humans can …

A 3-year EU-funded project (EUCALB), initially involving 14 countries and more than 30
scientists and physicians, was undertaken with the main objective of identifying practical risk …

Worldwide, many infections caused by viruses, bacteria or parasites are known to be tick-
transmitted zoonoses, ie infections transmitted from animals to humans. The present review …

The incidence of Lyme borreliosis (LB) in a region may reflect the prevalence of Borrelia in
the tick population. Our aim was to investigate if regions with different LB incidences can be …

Objectives: Lyme borreliosis is the most common zoonotic disease in Europe and causes an
estimated total burden of 10.55 disability-adjusted life years (DALY) per 100 000 population …

Two hundred and fifty-three farmers and forest workers and 249 clerks from south-west
Sweden were recruited to a cross-sectional seroprevalence study to find out if individuals …

Background: Public surveillance of Lyme borreliosis (LB) occurs in 9 out of 16 federal states
of Germany and remains a critical facet of disease epidemiology and trends. We describe …

Background Some studies show that the incidence of Lyme borreliosis is increasing in
different European countries. In order to evaluate if this is also the case in Belgium, different …

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is caused by a spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi s ensu l ato (B.
burgdorferi sl), which is transmitted to humans by ticks, in Europe− mainly by the tick Ixodes …