Announcing a caller article publication for Zoonoses journal. Ticks person garnered important investigation liking owing to their expertise to vector pathogens into humans and animals.
The intricate symbiotic associations betwixt ticks and tick microbiota substantially power developmental processes, reproductive success, and imaginable to service arsenic vectors for tick-transmitted diseases. This insubstantial reviews nan epidemiology of diseases transmitted by ticks and delves into nan creation and usability of tick endosymbionts successful transmission and infection. This reappraisal besides highlights nan domiciled of tick immunity successful maintaining gut homeostasis.
Finally, tick symbiont-pathogen interactions and imaginable strategies for controlling tick-borne diseases by leveraging symbiotic relationships are discussed.
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Chang, X., et al. (2025) Roles of Tick Symbiotic Microorganisms successful Pathogen Transmission. Zoonoses. doi.org/10.15212/ZOONOSES-2024-0067.