ReviewParasitology2015
Co-feeding transmission in Lyme disease pathogens.
Review in Parasitology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.
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63 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Global risk assessment of Lyme borreliosis transmission.Pathogens and global health · 2026Article
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- Seasonal variation in prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Norway.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2026Article
- A Bayesian modelling framework for estimating tick-borne pathogen transmission dynamics at the host-tick interface.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Emerging risk of tick-borne diseases in South Korea: Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis.Clinical and experimental vaccine research · 2026Review
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- Development, Optimization, and Validation of a Quantitative PCR Assay forPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii in blood and hard tick-infested Egyptian camels and the possibility of coinfections.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
- Hard Ticks as Vectors: The Emerging Threat of Tick-Borne Diseases in India.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Molecular screening and genetic diversity of tick-borne pathogens associated with dogs and livestock ticks in Egypt.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Lyme Disease Models of Tick-Mouse Dynamics with Seasonal Variation in Births, Deaths, and Tick Feeding.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2024Article
- Vector competence of Ixodes ricinus instars for the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in different small mammalian hosts.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Xenodiagnosis in the wild: A methodology to investigate infectiousness for tick-borne bacteria in a songbird reservoir.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
- A social-ecological systems approach to tick bite and tick-borne disease risk management: Exploring collective action in the Occitanie region in southern France.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
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Abstract
This review examines the phenomenon of co-feeding transmission in tick-borne pathogens. This mode of transmission is critical for the epidemiology of several tick-borne viruses but its importance for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the causative agents of Lyme borreliosis, is still controversial. The molecular mechanisms and ecological factors that facilitate co-feeding transmission are therefore examined with particular emphasis on Borrelia pathogens. Comparison of climate, tick ecology and experimental infection work suggests that co-feeding transmission is more important in European than North American systems of Lyme borreliosis, which potentially explains why this topic has gained more traction in the former continent than the latter. While new theory shows that co-feeding transmission makes a modest contribution to Borrelia fitness, recent experimental work has revealed new ecological contexts where natural selection might favour co-feeding transmission. In particular, co-feeding transmission might confer a fitness advantage in the Darwinian competition among strains in mixed infections. Future studies should investigate the ecological conditions that favour the evolution of this fascinating mode of transmission in tick-borne pathogens.
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