Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans
Temperate zones of the northern hemisphere are increasingly impacted by human biting ticks and the human pathogens they transmit. The relationships among ticks, hosts, and pathogens are undergoing significant changes with consequences for human health. This northern hemisphere focused review examine...
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| author | Nathalie Boulanger Nathalie Boulanger Hayato Iijima Kandai Doi Yuya Watari Mackenzie Kwak Ryo Nakao Ryo Nakao Ryo Nakao Stephen Wikel |
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| description | Temperate zones of the northern hemisphere are increasingly impacted by human biting ticks and the human pathogens they transmit. The relationships among ticks, hosts, and pathogens are undergoing significant changes with consequences for human health. This northern hemisphere focused review examines human biting ticks and the disease causing agents they transmit as increasing public health threats due to geographic range expansion, increasing size of tick populations, emergence of newly recognized pathogens, introduction of invasive tick species that are resulting in part from changing weather patterns, land use modifications, biodiversity loss, and human activities/behaviors; all of which result in significant challenges for tick control and disease prevention. As a result of these evolving interactions and the resulting threats they pose, there exist critical needs to implement existing and develop novel tools and strategies to prevent tick bites, control tick populations, and reduce transmission of tick-borne pathogens. Timely, up to date knowledge of which ticks and tick-borne infectious agents are present within an area is foundational for physicians, public health authorities tasked with disease prevention, and the public. Achieving these objectives poses significant challenges. Here, we examine current medically important tick – host - pathogen relationships in Asia, Europe, and North America. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-65ad0108b18e4e16a928b3479ba1bcfa2025-08-20T03:59:36ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2025-08-011610.3389/fmicb.2025.16328321632832Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humansNathalie Boulanger0Nathalie Boulanger1Hayato Iijima2Kandai Doi3Yuya Watari4Mackenzie Kwak5Ryo Nakao6Ryo Nakao7Ryo Nakao8Stephen Wikel9UR 3073: PHAVI: Groupe Borrelia, Institut de Bactériologie, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FranceFrench National Reference Center for Borrelia, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, FranceDepartment of Wildlife Biology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, JapanDepartment of Wildlife Biology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, JapanDepartment of Wildlife Biology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, JapanLaboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JapanLaboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JapanDivision of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JapanOne Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JapanDepartment of Medical Sciences, Frank H. Netter, M. D., School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, United StatesTemperate zones of the northern hemisphere are increasingly impacted by human biting ticks and the human pathogens they transmit. The relationships among ticks, hosts, and pathogens are undergoing significant changes with consequences for human health. This northern hemisphere focused review examines human biting ticks and the disease causing agents they transmit as increasing public health threats due to geographic range expansion, increasing size of tick populations, emergence of newly recognized pathogens, introduction of invasive tick species that are resulting in part from changing weather patterns, land use modifications, biodiversity loss, and human activities/behaviors; all of which result in significant challenges for tick control and disease prevention. As a result of these evolving interactions and the resulting threats they pose, there exist critical needs to implement existing and develop novel tools and strategies to prevent tick bites, control tick populations, and reduce transmission of tick-borne pathogens. Timely, up to date knowledge of which ticks and tick-borne infectious agents are present within an area is foundational for physicians, public health authorities tasked with disease prevention, and the public. Achieving these objectives poses significant challenges. Here, we examine current medically important tick – host - pathogen relationships in Asia, Europe, and North America.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1632832/fulltickstick-borne diseasesclimate changeinvasive tickssocio-ecosystemsprevention |
| spellingShingle | Nathalie Boulanger Nathalie Boulanger Hayato Iijima Kandai Doi Yuya Watari Mackenzie Kwak Ryo Nakao Ryo Nakao Ryo Nakao Stephen Wikel Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans Frontiers in Microbiology ticks tick-borne diseases climate change invasive ticks socio-ecosystems prevention |
| title | Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| title_full | Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| title_fullStr | Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| title_short | Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| title_sort | ticks and tick borne diseases in the northern hemisphere affecting humans |
| topic | ticks tick-borne diseases climate change invasive ticks socio-ecosystems prevention |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1632832/full |
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