Counterattacking the tick bite: towards a rational design of anti-tick vaccines targeting pathogen transmission

Counterattacking the tick bite: towards a rational design of anti-tick vaccines targeting pathogen transmission

Abstract Hematophagous arthropods are responsible for the transmission of a variety of pathogens that cause disease in humans and animals. Ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex are vectors for some of the most frequently occurring human tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne...

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Main Authors: Ryan O. M. Rego, Jos J. A. Trentelman, Juan Anguita, Ard M. Nijhof, Hein Sprong, Boris Klempa, Ondrej Hajdusek, Julen Tomás-Cortázar, Tal Azagi, Martin Strnad, Sarah Knorr, Radek Sima, Marie Jalovecka, Sabína Fumačová Havlíková, Martina Ličková, Monika Sláviková, Petr Kopacek, Libor Grubhoffer, Joppe W. Hovius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Tick
Vaccine
Ixodes
Borrelia
TBEV
Anaplasma
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3468-x

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