Transmission Cycle of Tick-Borne Infections and Co-Infections, Animal Models and Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Tick-borne pathogens such as species of Borrelia, Babesia, Anaplasma, Rickettsia, and Ehrlichia are widespread in the United States and Europe among wildlife, in passerines as well as in domestic and farm animals. Transmission of these pathogens occurs by infected ticks during their blood meal, carnivorism, and through animal bites in wildlife, whereas humans can become infected either by an infected tick bite, through blood transfusion and in some cases, congenitally. The reservoir hosts play an important role in maintaining pathogens in nature and facilitate transmission of individual pathogens or of multiple pathogens simultaneously to humans through ticks. Tick-borne co-infections were first reported in the 1980s in white-footed mice, the most promine

SUBMITTER: Rocha SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9696261 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature