Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe
Zoonotic tick-borne diseases are an increasing health burden in Europe and there is speculation that this is partly due to climate change affecting vector biology and disease transmission. Data on the vector tick Ixodes ricinus suggest that an extension of its northern and altitude range has been ac...
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| description | Zoonotic tick-borne diseases are an increasing health burden in Europe and there is speculation that this is partly due to climate change affecting vector biology and disease transmission. Data on the vector tick Ixodes ricinus suggest that an extension of its northern and altitude range has been accompanied by an increased prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis. Climate change may also be partly responsible for the change in distribution of Dermacentor reticulatus. Increased winter activity of I. ricinus is probably due to warmer winters and a retrospective study suggests that hotter summers will change the dynamics and pattern of seasonal activity, resulting in the bulk of the tick population becoming active in the latter part of the year. Climate suitability models predict that eight important tick species are likely to establish more northern permanent populations in a climate-warming scenario. However, the complex ecology and epidemiology of such tick-borne diseases as Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis make it difficult to implicate climate change as the main cause of their increasing prevalence. Climate change models are required that take account of the dynamic biological processes involved in vector abundance and pathogen transmission in order to predict future tick-borne disease scenarios. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a08d59d590d49f09dc5a029a96128872025-02-03T05:50:32ZengWileyInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases1687-708X1687-70982009-01-01200910.1155/2009/593232593232Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in EuropeJ. S. Gray0H. Dautel1A. Estrada-Peña2O. Kahl3E. Lindgren4School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, IrelandIS Insect Services GmbH, Haderslebener Straße 9, 12163 Berlin, GermanyDepartment of Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Miguel Servet 177, 50013 Zaragoza, SpainApplied Zoology/Animal Ecology, Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin, 12163 Berlin, GermanyStockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, SwedenZoonotic tick-borne diseases are an increasing health burden in Europe and there is speculation that this is partly due to climate change affecting vector biology and disease transmission. Data on the vector tick Ixodes ricinus suggest that an extension of its northern and altitude range has been accompanied by an increased prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis. Climate change may also be partly responsible for the change in distribution of Dermacentor reticulatus. Increased winter activity of I. ricinus is probably due to warmer winters and a retrospective study suggests that hotter summers will change the dynamics and pattern of seasonal activity, resulting in the bulk of the tick population becoming active in the latter part of the year. Climate suitability models predict that eight important tick species are likely to establish more northern permanent populations in a climate-warming scenario. However, the complex ecology and epidemiology of such tick-borne diseases as Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis make it difficult to implicate climate change as the main cause of their increasing prevalence. Climate change models are required that take account of the dynamic biological processes involved in vector abundance and pathogen transmission in order to predict future tick-borne disease scenarios.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/593232 |
| spellingShingle | J. S. Gray H. Dautel A. Estrada-Peña O. Kahl E. Lindgren Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases |
| title | Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe |
| title_full | Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe |
| title_fullStr | Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe |
| title_short | Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe |
| title_sort | effects of climate change on ticks and tick borne diseases in europe |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/593232 |
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