This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Two important contributors of early protection are speed of replication and onset of immunity, according to Alberto Giner, ...

Vector-borne pathogens are transmitted between hosts by an intermediate organism, often an arthropod like mosquitoes or ticks, referred to as a vector. phylogenetic relatedness: Evolutionary ...

Environmental conditions can also affect pathogen replication inside arthropod vectors, which in turn determines whether the vector will transmit the pathogen subsequently (Figure 1b ...

but it also informs pathogen/vector evolution and climate-based predictive modeling of malaria distribution.” ...

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases ... like Escherichia coli which is a cause of food poisoning. Vector Any organism that can spread a disease is called a vector.