Ticks, Tick Microbiome and 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: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 3875
Special Issue Editor
Interests: probiotics; RNAi medicine; parasite; fungus; mycobacteria; vectors; vector-borne diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit an article for inclusion in the following to Special issue: Ticks, Tick Microbiome and Tick-Borne Diseases. Currently, tick-borne diseases, such as lyme disease, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), Q fever, etc, are life-threatening to humans and animals even when transmitted by one tick bite. Furthermore, this risk will be accelerated by climate change and global warming. To overcome this anticipated adverse situation, novel strategies for tick control and reducing tick-borne pathogen transmission are urgently needed.
This Special Issue will collect and compare scientific data from across the world to develop coalescent tick control measures. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: the distribution of tick species according to the regions, hosts, and other factors; the tick microbiome and its relationship with environmental factors, such as surrounding soil and plants; the effects of the tick microbiome on tick-borne pathogens and the transmissibility of tick-borne diseases; and novel approaches to tick control using endosymbionts.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yun Sang Cho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ticks
- tick-borne diseases
- microbiome
- tick control
- tick-borne pathogens
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