Kahl Olaf
tick-radar GmbH, Jagowstr. 4, 10555, Berlin, Germany.
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2018 Aug;130(15-16):479-483. doi: 10.1007/s00508-018-1360-x. Epub 2018 Jul 13.
There are various arthropods (e.g. insects, chiggers, mites, ticks) that take one or more blood meals on terrestrial vertebrates in the course of their lifetime. Among them are ixodid ticks (Acari, Ixodidae), all of which are obligately hematophagous. Their parasitic lifestyle predestines them to act as transmitters or vectors of microparasites, often pathogenic to humans and/or domestic animals. The list of ixodid tick-borne pathogens is long, encompassing viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and nematodes. The present mini-review gives a brief overview of the most relevant biological attributes that make ixodid ticks very efficient vectors compared with other hematophagous arthropod taxa.
有各种各样的节肢动物（如昆虫、恙螨、螨、蜱）在其一生中会吸食一次或多次陆生脊椎动物的血液。其中包括硬蜱（蜱螨亚纲，硬蜱科），它们全部都是专性吸血的。它们的寄生生活方式注定它们会成为微寄生虫的传播者或载体，这些微寄生虫通常对人类和/或家畜具有致病性。硬蜱传播的病原体种类繁多，包括病毒、细菌、原生动物和线虫。本微型综述简要概述了一些最相关的生物学特性，这些特性使硬蜱与其他吸血节肢动物类群相比成为非常高效的载体。
