A number of tick-borne diseases of humans have increased in incidence and geographic
range over the past few decades, and there is concern that they will pose an even greater …

Simple Summary The Middle East and North Africa represent a hyper arid region of the
world. Humans in these regions have historically kept domestic livestock usually under …

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 …

An update of the 2006 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Small
Animal Consensus Statement on Lyme Disease in Dogs: Diagnosis, Treatment, and …

Over the past two decades, Ixodes scapularis, the primary tick vector of the Lyme disease
pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi in North America has expanded its range northward from the …

Background: The extent to which climate change may affect human health by increasing risk
from vector-borne diseases has been under considerable debate. Objectives: We quantified …

Since the discovery of the Lyme disease spirochete in North America in 1982 and in Europe
in 1983, a plethora of studies on this unique group of spirochetes that comprise Borrelia …

The invasion of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis into Ontario, Canada poses a
significant risk to public health because it is a vector for numerous pathogens, including …

A dynamic population model of Ixodes scapularis, the vector of a number of tick-borne
zoonoses in North America, was developed to simulate effects of temperature on tick …

Interest in tick-transmitted pathogens has experienced an upsurge in the past few decades.
Routine application of tools for the detection of fragments of foreign DNA in ticks, together …