![]() Warming global temperatures will influence geographic range and population expansion of ticks, which, in turn, influences distribution patterns and incidences of tick-borne infections. Īrthropod disease vectors and their transmission of disease causing agents are significantly influenced by weather and climate. ![]() The importance and awareness of the impacts of tick-borne diseases are steadily increasing. ![]() Changes in tick distribution and abundance, as well as emergence, resurgence, and geographic spread of tick-borne infections, are influenced by tick and tick-borne pathogen demography, micro and macro climate changes, human behavior, travel, land use and habitat modification (agricultural, residential, recreational), economics, politics, population growth and movement, and intrinsic changes in ticks and tick-borne pathogens. Seminal studies by Pavlovsky advanced the concept that zoonotic pathogens and their vectors occur in distinct habitats, resulting in the concept of the natural nidality, or landscape epidemiology, of transmissible diseases. Dynamic interactions among biotic and abiotic elements influence tick-borne disease epidemiology and ecology. Tick-borne infections of humans are zoonoses of wildlife origins, similar to tick transmitted diseases of companion and domestic animal species. Among arthropod vectors of disease, ticks transmit the most diverse array of infectious agents and ticks are the most important arthropod vectors, globally, of pathogens to humans and domestic animals.
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