Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard archipelago and Jan Mayen

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Elsterová, J. (Jana), Černý, J. (Jiří), Müllerová, J. (Jana), Šíma, R. (Radek), Coulson, S.J., Lorentzen, E., Strøm, H., Grubhoffer, L. (Libor)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: tick; Ixodes uriae; tick-borne pathogens; arboviruses; Borrelia spirochetes; Babesia apicomplexans; Bjornoya; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466; http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0251891

The tick species Ixodes uriae, parasitizing seabirds in the Arctic, may transmit many pathogens including various arboviruses, Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans. These pathogens may pose an important additional stress to seabirds, which are already stressed by environmental changes such...