Current Status and Challenges Associated with Tick-Borne Pathogens and Diseases: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Ticks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 64
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tick-borne pathogens and diseases; rabies; zoonoses
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Interests: tick-borne pathogens detection and characterization; laboratory diagnosis of treponematosis and characterization of their agents
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Amongst the arthropod vectors, ticks are capable of transmitting the largest variety of pathogens to domestic and wild animals, being second only to mosquitoes in humans. Together with climate and demographic changes, the world is facing an increasing distribution of tick species in non-endemic areas. Currently, there are multiple reports of emerging tick-borne pathogens and related diseases that were previously neglected, undetected, or misdiagnosed. As a result, it is necessary to advance toward a One Health approach to research, through the unification of various fields of expertise. This Special Issue aims to discuss the current status and anticipated challenges regarding tick-borne pathogens, such as protozoans and bacterial and viral pathogens, and the diseases they cause in humans and animals.
Dr. Pavle Banović
Dr. Islay Rodríguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tick-borne pathogens
- emerging vector-borne pathogens
- life cycle of tick-borne pathogens
- challenges in vector-borne pathogen detection
- tick-borne diseases
- challenges in clinical diagnosis of tick-borne diseases
- challenges in laboratory diagnosis of tick-borne diseases
- treatments of tick-borne diseases
- global distribution of tick-borne diseases
