Beside mosquitoes, ticks are well-known vectors of different human pathogens. In the
Northern Hemisphere, Lyme borreliosis (Eurasia, LB) or Lyme disease (North America, LD) …

Wildlife vertebrate hosts are integral to enzootic cycles of tick-borne pathogens, and in some
cases have played key roles in the recent rise of ticks and tick-borne diseases in North …

All members of the Borrelia genus that have been examined harbour a linear chromosome
that is about 900 kbp in length, as well as a plethora of both linear and circular plasmids in …

The increasing incidence and range expansion of tick-borne diseases have caused global
threats to human and animal health under the background of climate and socioeconomic …

Ticks are widely distributed across the globe, serving as hosts for numerous pathogens that
make them major contributors to zoonotic parasitosis. Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial …

Background The incidence of tick-borne disease has increased dramatically in recent
decades, with urban areas increasingly recognized as high-risk environments for exposure …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an important tick-borne zoonotic agent of human
granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA). In Europe, the Ixodes ticks are the main vector …

Vector‐borne pathogens exist in obligate transmission cycles between vector and reservoir
host species. Host and vector shifts can lead to geographic expansion of infectious agents …

The role of resident or migratory birds in dispersal of tick species and tick-borne pathogens
is still poorly known in Italy. We report here the results of a 3-year project based on sampling …

Lyme borreliosis (LB), caused by spirochetes of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl)
complex, is one of the most common vector-borne zoonotic diseases in Europe. Knowledge …