This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Vector-borne pathogens are transmitted between hosts by an intermediate organism, often an arthropod like mosquitoes or ticks, referred to as a vector. phylogenetic relatedness: Evolutionary ...

Environmental conditions can also affect pathogen replication inside arthropod vectors, which in turn determines whether the vector will transmit the pathogen subsequently (Figure 1b ...

The evolution of pathogens has received attention in a wide range of scientific fields, such as epidemiology, demography, and ...

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases ... like Escherichia coli which is a cause of food poisoning. Vector Any organism that can spread a disease is called a vector.

You can exploit the vector's ability to create proteins by ... the immune system attacks and eliminates cells that have been colonized by a pathogen. The vaccine, then, works like a live vaccine ...

CyanVac LLC, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing intranasal vaccines using a transformational parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5)-based vector, ...