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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal. It publishes original research papers, short communications, state-of-the-art mini-reviews, letters to the editor, clinical-case studies, announcements of pertinent international meetings, and editorials.
The journal covers a broad spectrum and brings together various disciplines, for example, zoology, microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, mathematical modelling, veterinary and human medicine. Multidisciplinary approaches and the use of conventional and novel methods/methodologies (in the field and in the laboratory) are crucial for deeper understanding of the natural processes and human behaviour/activities that result in human or animal diseases and in economic effects of ticks and tick-borne pathogens. Such understanding is essential for management of tick populations and tick-borne diseases in an effective and environmentally acceptable manner. The journal covers the following topics:

Ticks: biosystematics/taxonomy, morphology, evolution, ecology, physiology/biochemistry, behaviour, molecular biology, genomics/proteomics, and control

Ecology/ecoepidemiology of tick-borne diseases: vector ticks and reservoir hosts, the mechanisms and processes determining their abundance and distribution, the occurrence and prevalence of pathogens in tick and tick-host populations, tick-host-pathogen interactions at the ecological level and their dependence upon environmental factors, natural focality, and risk assessments of exposure to ticks and the occurrence of tick-borne diseases

Tick-borne pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and parasites, their biology in ticks and vertebrates, pathogen-tick and pathogen-host interactions on the molecular and cellular levels, transmission, coinfection, genomics/proteomics, and biosystematics/taxonomy

Tick-borne diseases in domestic animals and wildlife: epidemiology, diagnosis, immunology, treatment, vaccination, control/management, and economics

Tick-borne human diseases: epidemiology, diagnosis, immunology, treatment, vaccination, socioeconomics, and public health

In addition, methodological papers on all these areas will be published as well as timely reviews on vectors and vector-borne diseases in which tick biology or tick-borne diseases are addressed.

original research papers, short communications, state-of-the-art mini-reviews, letters to the editor, clinical-case studies, announcements of pertinent international meetings, and editorials. 

Editor-in-Chief
J. Suess
Lippersdorf, Germany Email J. Suess
Associate Editors
M. Derdáková
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
L. Eisen
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
A. Estrada-Peña
University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
J. de la Fuente
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
J. Gray
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
K.-P. Hunfeld
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
P. Kraiczy
University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
M. Labruna
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
D. Ruzek, PhD
Veterinary Research Institute, Department of Virology, Brno, Czech Republic
D. Sonenshine
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States
S. Stuen, BSc, MSc, DVM, PhD, Dr. philos, DipECSRHM
Norwegian University of Life Sciences Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Sandnes, Norway
Managing Editor
O. Kahl
tick-radar GmbH, Berlin, Germany Email O. Kahl
Editorial Board
L. Beati
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States
G.H. Bechara
Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, CURITIBA, Brazil
L.B. Coons
University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
S.J. Cutler
University of East London, London, United Kingdom
V. Fingerle
Bayerisches Landesamt fur Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit Dienststelle Oberschleissheim, Oberschleißheim, Germany
D. Fish
Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
M. Fukunaga
Fukuyama University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama, Japan
M. Jacobsen
Research Center for Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Pathobiology Research Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
T. Jaenson
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
F. Jongejan
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
K.M. Kocan
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
J. Kopecky
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
E. Korenberg
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskva, Russian Federation
G. Margos
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
P.A. Nuttall
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
N. Ogden
National Microbiology Laboratory, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
P. Parola
Aix-Marseille I University, Marseille, France
K. Pfister
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
J. Piesman
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
T.V. Poponnikova
S. Randolph
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
D. Raoult
Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Medicine, Marseille, France
P. Rosa
NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, United States
J. Stanczak
Medical University of Gdansk Center for Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Gdynia, Poland
G. Stanek
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
A.C. Steere
Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Rheumatology Allergy and Immunology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
B. Stevenson
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
F. Strle
University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
S.R. Telford
Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States
S.E. Tkachev
Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
J. Tsao
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
O. Vapalahti
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
P. Willadsen
CSIRO Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St Lucia, Australia