New insights into the impact of microbiome on horizontal and vertical transmission of a tick-borne pathogen

Abstract Background The impact of host skin microbiome on horizontal transmission of tick-borne pathogens , and of pathogen associated transstadial and transovarial changes in tick microbiome are largely unknown, but are important to control increasingly emerging tick-borne diseases worldwide. Metho...

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Main Authors: Li-Feng Du, Ming-Zhu Zhang, Ting-Ting Yuan, Xue-Bing Ni, Wei Wei, Xiao-Ming Cui, Ning Wang, Tao Xiong, Jie Zhang, Yu-Sheng Pan, Dai-Yun Zhu, Liang-Jing Li, Luo-Yuan Xia, Tian-Hong Wang, Ran Wei, Hong-Bo Liu, Yi Sun, Lin Zhao, Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam, Wu-Chun Cao, Na Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01485-2