Climate change can have detrimental effects on child health and wellbeing. Despite the
imperative for a fuller understanding of how climate change affects child health and …

Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is a tick-borne, zoonosis of adults and children caused by
genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. The ailment, widespread …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an emerging, Gram-negative, obligate intracellular
pathogen that is transmitted by a tick vector. Human infection ranges from asymptomatic to …

In the United States (US), tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have more than doubled in the past
fifteen years and are a major contributor to the overall burden of vector-borne diseases. The …

Ixodes scapularis is one of the predominant vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of
Lyme disease in the USA. The geographic distribution of I. scapularis, endemic to the …

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 …

Tick serine protease inhibitors (serpins) play crucial roles in tick feeding and pathogen
transmission. We demonstrate that Ixodes scapularis (Ixs) nymph tick saliva serpin (S) 41 …

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 …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum causes a multi-organ non-specific febrile illness referred to as
human granulocytic anaplasmosis. The epidemiologic risk of the pathogen is …