Ticks are important human and animal parasites and vectors of many infectious disease
agents. Control of tick activity is an effective tool to reduce the risk of contracting tick …

Background: Lyme disease (LD) is an emergent vector-borne disease caused by Borrelia
spp. and transmitted through infected ticks, mainly Ixodes spp. Our objective was to …

Lyme borreliosis is the most common zoonotic disease transmitted by ticks in Europe and
North America. Despite having multiple tick vectors, the causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi …

This book contains the text of the Haskell Lectures for 1972-1973, delivered at Oberlin
College, April 3 through April 6, 1973, the assignment being four lectures on a topic in post …

Background Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a disease which can lead to severe
neurological symptoms, caused by the TBE virus (TBEV). The natural transmission cycle …

The Damascus Document is one of the key texts to have been discovered in both
spectacular Jewish manuscript discoveries of the 20 th century: the Cairo Genizah and the …

Background Abiotic conditions provide cues that drive tick questing activity. Defining these
cues is critical in predicting biting risk, and in forecasting climate change impacts on tick …

The Covenant in Judaism and Paul deals with biblical and intertestamental uses of covenant
and related rituals, challenging the view that baptism replaces circumcision, since baptism is …

This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead
Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an …

The hard tick Ixodes ricinus is an important disease vector whose salivary secretions
mediate blood-feeding success on vertebrate hosts, including humans. Here we describe …