Tick-Borne Pathogens and Their Impact on Human and Animal Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Pathogens titled "Tick-Borne Pathogens and Their Impact on Human and Animal Health". This Special Issue addresses the critical challenges posed by tick-borne diseases, which affect human and animal health worldwide. The rise in zoonotic infections, including Lyme borreliosis, rickettsiosis, tick-borne encephalitis and Congo–Crimean hemorrhagic fever, highlights the urgent need to deepen our understanding of tick biology, host–pathogen interactions, disease transmission dynamics, clinical manifestations, epidemiology and prevention strategies.

This Special Issue seeks to gather research that explores key aspects of tick-borne diseases, such as their manifestation, diagnostics, vector biology, the environmental factors driving the expansion of the tick population and innovative strategies to control tick populations and limit disease spread. We welcome original research articles, case reports and reviews that contribute valuable insights to this field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The transmission dynamics of tick-borne diseases;
• Host–pathogen interactions in tick-borne infections;
• Advances in controlling tick populations;
• The impact of zoonotic pathogens on public health;
• Ecological and environmental factors influencing tick-borne diseases;
• Clinical manifestations of emerging tick-borne diseases;
• The evaluation of diagnostic assays;
• The epidemiology of tick-borne diseases;
• Tick-borne diseases as a problem in travel medicine.

We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.

Dr. Pavle Banović
Dr. Dasiel Obregon
Dr. Dejan Jakimovski
Dr. Eleftherios Meletis
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Cvetkovikj
Guest Editors

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