Ixodes ricinus and Its Transmitted Pathogens in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Europe: New Hazards and Relevance for Public Health

A Rizzoli, C Silaghi, A Obiegala, I Rudolf… - Frontiers in public …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Tick-borne diseases represent major public and animal health issues worldwide. Ixodes
ricinus, primarily associated with deciduous and mixed forests, is the principal vector of …

[HTML][HTML] Reptile vector-borne diseases of zoonotic concern

JA Mendoza-Roldan, MA Mendoza-Roldan… - International Journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reptile vector-borne diseases (RVBDs) of zoonotic concern are caused by bacteria,
protozoa and viruses transmitted by arthropod vectors, which belong to the subclass Acarina …

Borrelia Diversity and Co-infection with Other Tick Borne Pathogens in Ticks

C Raileanu, S Moutailler, I Pavel, D Porea… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Identifying Borrelia burgdorferi as the causative agent of Lyme disease in 1981 was a
watershed moment in understanding the major impact that tick-borne zoonoses can have on …

Exploring gaps in our knowledge on Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes–updates on complex heterogeneity, ecology, and pathogenicity

J Franke, A Hildebrandt, W Dorn - Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2013 - Elsevier
The Lyme borreliosis complex is a heterogeneous group of tick-borne spirochaetes of the
genus Borrelia (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) that are distributed all over the temperate …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing molecular adaptations of Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in the context of reproductive fitness in natural transmission cycles

JI Tsao - Veterinary research, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is caused by a group of pathogenic spirochetes–most often Borrelia
burgdorferi, B. afzelii, and B. garinii–that are vectored by hard ticks in the Ixodes ricinus …

Isolation and characterization of a novel Borrelia group of tick‐borne borreliae from imported reptiles and their associated ticks

A Takano, K Goka, Y Une, Y Shimada… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The members of the genus Borrelia are transmitted by arthropods and known to be
infectious to vertebrates. Here we found isolates and DNAs belonging to the Borrelia turcica …

[HTML][HTML] Imbalanced presence of Borrelia burgdorferi sl multilocus sequence types in clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis

EC Coipan, S Jahfari, M Fonville, GA Oei… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study we used typing based on the eight multilocus sequence typing scheme
housekeeping genes (MLST) and 5S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer (IGS) to explore the …

Differential Role of Passerine Birds in Distribution of Borrelia Spirochetes, Based on Data from Ticks Collected from Birds during the Postbreeding Migration Period in …

L Dubska, I Literak, E Kocianova… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Borrelia spirochetes in bird-feeding ticks were studied in the Czech Republic. During the
postbreeding period (July to September 2005), 1,080 passerine birds infested by 2,240 …

Ticks and their epidemiological role in Slovakia: From the past till present

M Stanko, M Derdáková, E Špitalská, M Kazimírová - Biologia, 2022 - Springer
In Slovakia, 22 tick species have been found to occur to date. Among them, Ixodes ricinus,
Dermacentor reticulatus, D. marginatus and marginally Haemaphysalis concinna, H. inermis …

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Francisella tularensis and their co-infections in host-seeking Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Serbia

M Milutinović, T Masuzawa, S Tomanović… - … and Applied Acarology, 2008 - Springer
To evaluate the prevalence rate of tick-borne bacterial pathogens, unfed adult Ixodes ricinus
ticks were collected from vegetation in 2001, 2003, and 2004 at 18 localities throughout …