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

• Yazar: Agustin Estrada-Pena (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Jose De La Fuente (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Seri Bilgileri: Frontiers Research Topics
• Konular: Review Literature as Topic; Ticks; tick-transmitted pathogens; Ecology; Epidemiology
• Online Erişim: 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...