Ticks and Threats: Insights on Tick-Borne Diseases
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: parasites; public health; ticks; tick-borne diseases; wildlife; zoonoses
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As is well-known, tick-borne diseases represent a major global public health challenge due to the plethora of bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections affecting animals and humans. To date, the occurrence and emergence of tick-borne diseases has been considered across different geographical settings due to their complex epidemiology, this depending on various sociodemographic aspects. For example, agricultural strategies, deforestation, and global warming are strongly involved in altering ecosystems, affecting tick–host interaction and the circulation of tick-borne pathogens. In addition, the increased urbanization of various wildlife species in urban and suburban areas has further increased the circulation, transmission routes, and exposure risk of tick-borne zoonotic pathogens to pets, farm animals, and humans. Accordingly, this Special Issue is open to original research, review articles and case reports related to the above aspects, with the aim of contributing to the understanding of tick-borne diseases. Accordingly, this Special Issue is open to original research, review articles, and case reports addressing aspects related to tick-borne diseases and related agents in animals and humans, including the following topics:
- The ecology and epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne infections;
- Microbial pathogenesis of viral, bacterial and parasitic infections in the vertebrate host;
- The role of synanthropic wildlife in the epidemiology of tick-borne pathogens;
- Novel approaches in the monitoring and surveillance of tick-borne infections;
- Spatio-temporal models to predict the distribution, abundance, and spread of ticks, as well as the agents transmitted, including the introduction of invasive tick species and new pathogens into previously free areas;
- Technically sound control methods of tick populations, including symbiotic control of ticks by tick endosymbionts;
- Recent advances in the knowledge of tick-borne infections by in vivo and in vitro experiments;
- Frontiers in the development of anti-tick vaccines, antivirals, and antibiotics against tick-borne pathogens;
- Novel approaches to the diagnosis and therapy of tick-borne diseases;
- Virtuous examples of multidisciplinary collaboration in a One Health perspective in the case management of tick-borne pathogens.
Dr. Giovanni Sgroi
Guest Editor
Dr. Kandai Doi
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- public health
- ticks
- tick-borne disease
- tick-borne pathogens
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