The zoonosis Q fever is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii.
Besides the main transmission route via inhalation of contaminated aerosols, ticks are …

Among blood-sucking arthropods, ticks are recognized as being of prime global importance
because of their role as vectors of pathogens affecting human and animal health. Ticks carry …

Most tick‐borne pathogens (TBPs) are secondarily acquired by ticks during feeding on
infected hosts, which imposes 'priority effect'constraints, as arrival order influences the …

The possibility that Dermanyssus gallinae, the poultry red mite, could act as a vector of
infectious disease-causing pathogens has always intrigued researchers and worried …

Ticks are involved in the transmission of various pathogens and several tick‐borne diseases
cause significant problems for the health of humans and livestock. The composition of viral …

Abstract Backgrounds Corsica is a French island situated in the Mediterranean Sea. The
island provides suitable natural conditions to study disease ecology, especially tick-borne …

Although livestock farming (sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle) is an important economic activity
in Corsica, a French Mediterranean island, knowledge about the tick fauna and …

Rhipicephalus bursa is one of 79 species of the genus Rhipicephalus in the family of
Ixodidae. In this study, we investigated Anaplasmataceae bacteria associated with R. bursa …

Background Across the world, ticks act as vectors of human and animal pathogens. Ticks
rely on bacterial endosymbionts, which often share close and complex evolutionary links …

Q fever (coxiellosis), caused by Coxiella burnetii, is an emerging or re-emerging zoonotic
disease of public health significance and with worldwide distribution. As a causal agent of …