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 …

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 …

Blood-sucking ticks are obligate parasites and vectors of a variety of human and animal
viruses. Some tick-borne viruses have been identified as pathogens of infectious diseases in …

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 …

Ticks are important vector hosts of pathogens which cause human and animal diseases
worldwide. Diverse viruses have been discovered in ticks; however, little is known about the …

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 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 …

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 …

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

Ticks are implicated in the transmission of various human and livestock pathogens
worldwide. This study aimed to understand the geographical distribution of tick species …