Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

Ticks are the most important vectors of human pathogens, leading to increased public health
burdens worldwide. Tick-borne pathogens include viruses (eg tick-borne encephalitis and …

In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is a vector of seven human
pathogens, including those causing Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borrelia …

Flaviviruses pose a constant threat to human health. These RNA viruses are transmitted by
the bite of infected mosquitoes and ticks and regularly cause outbreaks. To identify host …

The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, is the primary vector to humans in the eastern
United States of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, as well as causative …

We report the discovery of large numbers of Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Ixodida:
Ixodidae) infesting a sheep in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. All life stages …

Abstract In the United States, ticks transmit the greatest diversity of arthropod-borne
pathogens and are responsible for the most cases of all vector-borne diseases. In recent …

Lyme disease has increased both in incidence and geographic extent in the United States
and Canada over the past two decades. One of the underlying causes is changes during the …

Powassan virus (POWV, Flaviviridae) is the only North American member of the tick-borne
encephalitis serogroup of flaviviruses. It is transmitted to small-and medium-sized mammals …

The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the primary vector to humans in the eastern
United States of the deer tick virus lineage of Powassan virus (Powassan virus disease); the …