The evolving story of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato transmission in Europe

A Steinbrink, K Brugger, G Margos, P Kraiczy… - Parasitology …, 2022 - Springer
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) …

[HTML][HTML] The wild hidden face of Lyme borreliosis in Europe

PF Humair, L Gern - Microbes and Infection, 2000 - Elsevier
Lyme borreliosis is a zoonosis affecting humans in the Northern hemisphere. The pathogen,
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl), persists in endemic areas through a maintenance cycle …

Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health

N Rudenko, M Golovchenko, L Grubhoffer… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2011 - Elsevier
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl) complex is a diverse group of worldwide distributed
bacteria that includes 18 named spirochete species and a still not named group proposed …

[HTML][HTML] Lyme borreliosis: Europe-wide coordinated surveillance and action needed?

R Smith, J Takkinen… - Weekly releases …, 2006 - eurosurveillance.org
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 …

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis: life in the wilds

L Gern - Parasite, 2008 - parasite-journal.org
In Europe, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl) the agent of Lyme borreliosis circulates in
endemic areas between Ixodes ricinus ticks and a large number of vertebrate hosts upon …

Europe-wide meta-analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato prevalence in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks

M Strnad, V Hönig, D Růžek, L Grubhoffer… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lyme borreliosis is the most common zoonotic disease transmitted by ticks in Europe and
North America. Despite having multiple tick vectors, the causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi …

Terrestrial distribution of the Lyme borreliosis agent Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in East Asia

T Masuzawa - Japanese journal of infectious diseases, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Lyme borreliosis is the most prevalent tick-borne zoonosis and an important emerging
infection in Europe, North America, and Far Eastern countries. The geographical distribution …

Association of Borrelia afzelii with rodents in Europe

K Hanincova, SM Schäfer, S Etti, HS Sewell… - Parasitology, 2003 - cambridge.org
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl) is maintained in nature by complex zoonotic transmission
cycles, involving a large variety of vertebrates as hosts and hard ticks of the genus Ixodes as …

Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe: transmission dynamics in multi-host systems, influence of molecular processes and effects of climate change

A Mannelli, L Bertolotti, L Gern… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The analysis of different multi-host systems suggests that even hosts that are not capable of
transmitting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl.) to the tick vector, Ixodes ricinus, or that are …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of Lyme disease in the United States and Europe

AR Marques, F Strle, GP Wormser - Emerging infectious diseases, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tickborne disease in the United
States and Europe. In both locations, Ixodes species ticks transmit the Borrelia burgdorferi …