Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Host Response and Control of Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Ticks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 40342
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; immunology; Lyme disease; tick-borne pathogens
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the mid-1970s, a geographic clustering of an unusual rheumatoid arthritis-like condition, involving mostly children and young adults, occurred in northeastern Connecticut. This condition proved to be a newly discovered deer-tick-transmitted infection named Lyme disease and was caused by a previously unknown bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. Other diseases transmitted by the deer tick include babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, infections caused by Powassan virus, deer tick virus, Borrelia miyamotoi, and B. mayonii. There are numerous other tick-borne infections transmitted by other tick species, which include Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the USA and tick-borne encephalitis virus in Eurasia.
This Special Issue is open to all researchers involved in research on tick-borne pathogens and the diseases they cause; original research articles and reviews are welcome, mainly in the areas of epidemiology, pathogenesis, prevention and vaccine development.
Dr. Charles Pavia
Dr. Gary P. Wormser
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Lyme disease
- tick-transmitted infections
- pathogenesis
- host response
- epidemiology
- vaccines
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