Lyme disease is a tick-borne zoonosis caused by several genospecies of the spirochete
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. 1 The organism normally cycles among small mammals and …

The evolutionary ecology of many emerging infectious diseases, particularly vector-borne
zoonoses, is poorly understood. Here, we aim to develop a biological, process-based …

Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease) is an infection caused by the spirochete bacteria Borrelia
burgdorferi sensu lato, which are transmitted by bites from infected ticks of the Ixodes genus …

The distributional area of the tick Ixodes ricinus (L.), the primary European vector to humans
of Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato) and tick‐borne …

From May to November 2003, at five selected sites of the 'Siebengebirge', a nature reserve
near Bonn, Germany, data on microclimate, pedology, plant sociology and tick abundance …

Autophagy is a key innate immune response to intracellular parasites that promotes their
delivery to degradative lysosomes following detection in the cytosol or within damaged …

Lyme borreliosis is the most frequent vector-borne disease in Germany; however, in only six
states in the eastern part of Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg Western …

Lyme borreliosis (LB) represents the most common vector-borne zoonotic disease in the
Northern Hemisphere. The infection is caused by the spirochetes of the Borrelia burgdorferi …

Abstract From March to October 2003, a total of 2,518 host-seeking Ixodes ricinus ticks
(1,944 nymphs, 264 females, 310 males) were collected by blanket dragging at 45 sites all …

Due to the high Lyme borreliosis incidence in Alsace, in northeastern France, we
investigated in 2003-2004 three cantons in this region in order to determine the density of …