Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

Ticks are a major group of arthropod vectors, characterized by the diversity of pathogens
they transmit, by their impact on human and animal health, and by their socioeconomic …

Babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa that are
primarily transmitted by hard-bodied (ixodid) ticks and rarely through blood transfusion …

Abstract The genus Anaplasma (family Anaplasmataceae, order Rickettsiales) includes
obligate intracellular alphaproteobacteria that multiply within membrane-bound vacuoles …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the agent of tick-borne fever, equine, canine and human
granulocytic anaplasmosis. The common route of A. phagocytophilum transmission is …

This chapter focuses on comparative medical aspects of Bartonellosis, including the
epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical diagnosis, treatment and challenges. Bartonellosis is a …

Lyme borreliosis is transmitted en France by the tick Ixodes ricinus, endemic in metropolitan
France. In the absence of vaccine licensed for use in humans, primary prevention mostly …

Powassan virus is an increasingly-recognized cause of severe encephalitis that is
transmitted by Ixodes ticks. Given the nonspecific clinical, laboratory, and imaging features …

Powassan virus (POWV) is a tickborne flavivirus discovered in Ontario, Canada in 1958 that
causes long-term neurological sequelae in about half the reported cases and death in a little …

When it comes to tick-borne diseases, co-infections are often mentioned. This concept
includes several entities. On the one hand, tick vectors or vertebrate reservoir host can …