Tick immune system: what is known, the interconnections, the gaps, and the challenges

AC Fogaça, G Sousa, DB Pavanelo, E Esteves… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ticks are ectoparasitic arthropods that necessarily feed on the blood of their vertebrate
hosts. The success of blood acquisition depends on the pharmacological properties of tick …

Borrelia bavariensis: Vector Switch, Niche Invasion, and Geographical Spread of a Tick-Borne Bacterial Parasite

G Margos, V Fingerle, S Reynolds - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex currently consists of more than 20
species that utilize small vertebrate hosts as reservoirs and ticks of the genus Ixodes as …

[BOOK][B] Parasitology: a conceptual approach

ES Loker, BV Hofkin - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the
increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changing biosphere, the second edition …

Interactions between ticks and lyme disease spirochetes

U Pal, C Kitsou, D Drecktrah, OB Yas… - Current issues in molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato causes Lyme borreliosis in a variety of animals and humans.
These atypical bacterial pathogens are maintained in a complex enzootic life cycle that …

Tick‐virus interactions: current understanding and future perspectives

CE Hart, S Thangamani - Parasite Immunology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ticks are the primary vector of arboviruses in temperate climates worldwide. They are both
the vector of these pathogens to humans and an integral component of the viral sylvatic …

Redox imbalance and its metabolic consequences in tick-borne diseases

M Groth, E Skrzydlewska, M Dobrzyńska… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
One of the growing global health problems are vector-borne diseases, including tick-borne
diseases. The most common tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, tick-borne …

Controlling Lyme disease: new paradigms for targeting the tick-pathogen-reservoir axis on the horizon

Q Bernard, JP Phelan, LT Hu - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi), and is
transmitted by an acarian vector, Ixodes ticks (Radolf et al., 2012). As the most common …

Characteristics of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

G Margos, S Hepner, V Fingerle - Lyme Borreliosis, 2022 - Springer
Characteristic features of the bacteria that can cause Lyme borreliosis are summarized in
this chapter. The parasitic, spirochetal bacteria depend on vector ticks (genus Ixodes) and …

Transcriptome study reveals tick immune genes restrict Babesia microti infection

T Feng, H Tong, F Zhang, Q Zhang, H Zhang… - Insect …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A systems biology approach was employed to gain insight into tick biology and interactions
between vectors and pathogens. Haemaphysalis longicornis serves as one of the primary …

Integrative Transcriptome and Proteome Analyses Provide New Insights Into the Interaction Between Live Borrelia burgdorferi and Frontal Cortex Explants of the …

Z Ding, L Sun, Y Bi, Y Zhang, P Yue… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), which is neurotropic, can attack the central nervous system (CNS),
leading to the development of various neurologic symptoms. The pathogenesis of Lyme …