The ecology of tick-borne diseases

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 43, Issue 12-13, 2013, Pages 1059-1077

  Pfäffle, Miriam ^a   Littwin, Nina ^a   Muders, Senta V ^a   Petney, Trevor N ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic influence; Environment; Global change; Host; Tick; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; HISTAMINE; TESTOSTERONE; VACCINE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TICK;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARGAS MONOLAKENSIS; ARGASIDAE; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BASOPHIL DEGRANULATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COXIELLA BURNETII; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DEER; DILUTION HOST; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEAT STRESS; HOST; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INNATE IMMUNITY; IXODES HEXAGONUS; IXODES LIVIDUS; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODES TRIANGULICEPS; IXODIDAE; LAND USE; LYME DISEASE; MICROCLIMATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUTTALLIELLA NAMAQUA; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; PARASITE SURVIVAL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; REFORESTATION; REVIEW; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS AUSTRALIS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ZAMBESIENSIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK INFESTATION; URBANIZATION; VACCINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODIDA;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOST; TICK; TICK-BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 84884704184     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.06.009     Document Type: Review

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