The biology and ecology of ticks shape the potential for the transmission of zoonotic pathogens

• Main Author: Agustin Estrada-Pena (auth)
• Other Authors: Jose De La Fuente (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Review Literature as Topic; Ticks; tick-transmitted pathogens; Ecology; Epidemiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ticks are noticeable by the high diversity of pathogens they can transmit, most of them with implications in human and animal health. Ticks are arachnids, meaning that they do not share the biological and ecological features of the mosquitoes and other parasitic Diptera. The natural foci of tick-bor...