Climate, Ticks and Disease

0555285 - BC 2022 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Rudenko, Natalia - Grubhoffer, Libor - Golovchenko, Maryna
Climate impact on Lyme borreliosis and its causative agents.
[Climate impact on Lyme borreliosis and its causative agents.]
Climate, Ticks and Disease. Vol. December 2021. Oxford: Cabi, 2021 - (Nuttall, P.), s. 349-353. Cabi Climate Change Series. ISBN 9781789249637
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Climate * Ticks * Disease
OECD category: Infectious Diseases
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This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The effect of climate on the physiology and behaviour of ticks is stressed, including potentially critical impacts on the tick microbiome. Given that the notoriety of ticks derives from pathogens they transmit, the book considers whether changes in climate affect vector capacity. Ticks transmit a remarkable range of micro- and macro-parasites many of which are pathogens of humans and domesticated animals. The intimacy between a tick-borne agent and a tick vector means that any impacts of climate on a tick vector will impact tick-borne pathogens. Most obviously, such impacts will be apparent as changes in disease incidence and prevalence. The evidence that climate change is affecting diseases caused by tick-borne pathogens is considered, along with the potential to make robust predictions of future events.
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