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

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Jana Elsterová, Jiří Černý, Jana Müllerová, Radek Šíma, Stephen J. Coulson, Erlend Lorentzen, Hallvard Strøm, Libor Grubhoffer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2015
• Subjects: Tick; Ixodes uriae; tick-borne pathogens; arboviruses; Borrelia spirochetes; Babesia apicomplexans; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Bjørnøya; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466; https://doaj.org/article/ccbf696cb99c4790a98e7efd253a5045

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...