Birds, particularly passerines, can be parasitized by Ixodid ticks, which may be infected with
tick-borne pathogens, like Borrelia spp., Babesia spp., Anaplasma, Rickettsia/Coxiella, and …

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 Global climate change can seriously impact on the epidemiological dynamics of
vector-borne diseases. In this study we investigated how future climatic changes could affect …

A national crowdsourcing-based tick collection campaign was organized in 2015 with the
objective of producing novel data on tick distribution and tick-borne pathogens in Finland …

Background The bacteria of the group Borrelia burgdorferi sl are the etiological agents of
Lyme borreliosis in humans, transmitted by bites of ticks. Improvement of control measures …

Background Ticks are responsible for transmitting several notable pathogens worldwide.
Finland lies in a zone where two human-biting tick species co-occur: Ixodes ricinus and …

Abstract Background The tick species Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus are of exceptional
medical importance in the western and eastern parts, respectively, of the Palaearctic region …

The genus Flavivirus includes related, unclassified segmented flavi-like viruses, two
segments of which have homology with flavivirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase NS5 …

Background Almost 3500 tick samples, originally collected via a nationwide citizen science
campaign in 2015, were screened to reveal the prevalence and distribution of a wide …

Background Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is one tick-transmitted disease where the human
incidence has increased in some European regions during the last two decades. We aim to …