The global climate has been changing over the last century due to greenhouse gas
emissions and will continue to change over this century, accelerating without effective global …

Climate change has influenced the transmission of a wide range of vector-borne diseases in
Europe, which is a pressing public health challenge for the coming decades. Numerous …

Abstract Changes to the community ecology of hosts for zoonotic pathogens, particularly
rodents, are likely to influence the emergence and prevalence of zoonotic diseases …

Tickborne diseases (TBDs) such as Lyme disease result in≈ 500,000 diagnoses annually in
the United States. Various methods can reduce the abundance of ticks at small spatial …

Questing is a host-seeking behavior in which ticks ascend plants, extend their front legs, and
wait poised for a chance to attach to a passing host. Hard ticks are ectoparasites of terrestrial …

Background To predict the risk of tick-borne disease, it is critical to understand the ecological
factors that determine the abundance of ticks. In Europe, the sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) …

More than 25% of human infectious diseases are vector-borne diseases (VBDs). These
diseases, caused by pathogens shared between animals and humans, are a growing threat …

Ixodes scapularis (the blacklegged tick) is widely distributed in forested areas across the
eastern United States. The public health impact of I. scapularis is greatest in the north, where …

Lyme disease is the most common vector‐borne disease in temperate zones and a growing
public health threat in the United States (US). The life cycles of the tick vectors and …

Ticks are able to transmit the highest number of pathogen species of any blood-feeding
arthropod and represent a growing threat to public health and agricultural systems …