Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens in a Changing World—2nd Edition
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Ticks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2027 | Viewed by 61
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Interests: ticks
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Dear Colleagues,
Ticks remain among the most important arthropod vectors of diseases affecting animals and humans worldwide. Since the first edition of this Special Issue, advances in genomics, metagenomics, molecular epidemiology, microbiome research, spatial modelling and diagnostic technologies have greatly enhanced our understanding of tick biology, pathogen diversity and disease transmission. At the same time, climate change, land-use change, urbanisation, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss, wildlife and livestock movements, international trade, and increasing human travel continue to reshape tick distributions and facilitate the emergence and spread of tick-borne pathogens. Addressing these complex interactions through a One Health approach is essential for strengthening surveillance, improving risk assessment, and developing effective prevention and control strategies.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and critical reviews on the ecology, epidemiology, diagnosis, surveillance and control of ticks and tick-borne pathogens. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary studies spanning veterinary medicine, parasitology, microbiology, ecology, wildlife biology, epidemiology and public health, with contributions from all regions of the world, particularly tropical, subtropical and insular ecosystems. Topics of interest include environmental and anthropogenic drivers of disease emergence, tick ecology and vector competence, wildlife–livestock–companion animal interfaces, emerging pathogens, molecular and diagnostic advances, spatial epidemiology, integrated One Health surveillance, acaricide resistance, vector management, and tick–host–pathogen interactions. Together, these contributions will provide an up-to-date synthesis of this rapidly evolving field and support evidence-based strategies to improve the surveillance, prevention and control of tick-borne diseases.
Dr. Roxanne Albertha Charles
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ticks
- tick-borne pathogens
- tick-borne diseases
- climate change
- One Health
- diagnostics
- emerging and re-emerging tick-borne pathogens
- tick ecology
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