Dermacentor reticulatus is a hard tick species with extraordinary biological features. It has a
high reproduction rate, a rapid developmental cycle, and is also able to overcome years of …

Wild vertebrates are involved in the transmission cycles of numerous pathogens.
Additionally, they can affect the abundance of arthropod vectors. Urbanization, landscape …

Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) pose a major threat to human health in Europe and the whole
northern hemisphere. Despite a high prevalence of TBPs in Ixodes ricinus ticks, knowledge …

Dermacentor reticulatus ticks are sporadically removed from human skin and therefore the
medical consequences of their feeding are neglected compared to Ixodes ricinus. We …

The impact of tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) on human health has increased in the last
decades, since the incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious and zoonotic tick …

Ticks, such as Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus, act as vectors for multiple
pathogens posing a threat to both human and animal health. As the process of urbanization …

Tick-borne diseases are a major threat to human and animal health. An increasing number
of natural habitats have been transformed into urban areas by human activity; hence, the …

Ticks are found across a range of habitats, with woodland being particularly important for
high densities and prevalence of Borrelia infection. Assessments of risk in urban woodland …

We collected 1,671 Dermacentor reticulatus ticks from 17 locations in the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, and Hungary. We found 47.9% overall prevalence of Rickettsia species in ticks …

From a migrating golden jackal (Canis aureus), we retrieved 21 live male Dermacentor
reticulatus ticks, a species not previously reported from wildlife in Denmark. We identified …