The impact of human activities on zoonotic infection transmissions

MM Esposito, S Turku, L Lehrfield, A Shoman - Animals, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Human activities, such as changing the environmental landscape or
develo** animal-related tourist attractions and zoos, have greatly increased the …

Lyme disease in humans

JD Radolf, K Strle, JE Lemieux, F Strle - Current issues in molecular …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
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 …

The evolving story of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato transmission in Europe

A Steinbrink, K Brugger, G Margos, P Kraiczy… - Parasitology …, 2022‏ - Springer
Beside mosquitoes, ticks are well-known vectors of different human pathogens. In the
Northern Hemisphere, Lyme borreliosis (Eurasia, LB) or Lyme disease (North America, LD) …

The contribution of wildlife hosts to the rise of ticks and tick-borne diseases in North America

JI Tsao, SA Hamer, S Han, JL Sidge… - Journal of medical …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Wildlife vertebrate hosts are integral to enzootic cycles of tick-borne pathogens, and in some
cases have played key roles in the recent rise of ticks and tick-borne diseases in North …

Fundamental processes in the evolutionary ecology of Lyme borreliosis

K Kurtenbach, K Hanincová, JI Tsao… - Nature Reviews …, 2006‏ - nature.com
The evolutionary ecology of many emerging infectious diseases, particularly vector-borne
zoonoses, is poorly understood. Here, we aim to develop a biological, process-based …

Landscape epidemiology of vector-borne diseases

WK Reisen - Annual review of entomology, 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
Landscape epidemiology describes how the temporal dynamics of host, vector, and
pathogen populations interact spatially within a permissive environment to enable …

Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada

NH Ogden, LR Lindsay, K Hanincová… - Applied and …, 2008‏ - journals.asm.org
During the spring in 2005 and 2006, 39,095 northward-migrating land birds were captured
at 12 bird observatories in eastern Canada to investigate the role of migratory birds in …

Population genetics, taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

G Margos, SA Vollmer, NH Ogden, D Fish - Infection, Genetics and …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In order to understand the population structure and dynamics of bacterial microorganisms,
ty** systems that accurately reflect the phylogenetic and evolutionary relationship of the …

Lyme borreliosis in europe and north america

J Piesman, L Gern - Parasitology, 2004‏ - cambridge.org
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 …

Niche partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the same tick vector and mammalian reservoir species

AG Barbour, J Bunikis, B Travinsky… - … American journal of …, 2009‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Lyme borreliosis agent Borrelia burgdorferi and the relapsing fever group species
Borrelia miyamotoi co-occur in the United States. We used species-specific, quantitative …