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Among arthropod vectors, ticks are considered to be the most important group in animal health (especially for the major damage they cause to production animals in tropical areas) and the second most important in human health (after mosquitoes; they are vectors of Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, etc.). Whether in the media, in the veterinary or medical community, there is currently renewed interest in ticks and the diseases they transmit. It must be said that the global changes we are facing (global warming, increased transport of goods and animals, forest fragmentation...) necessarily have a major impact on the abundance and distribution of ticks, whose development time is linked to temperature, survival to humidity and dispersion to host movements.

The complexity of tick diseases, which involve many actors (humans, domestic and wild animals, which can be reservoirs of pathogens or sources of blood for ticks; microorganisms that are hosted and transmitted; vegetation on which ticks spend more than 90% of their life waiting for a host to pass nearby...), justifies a substantial research effort on many aspects of the biology of organisms and their interactions.

Albert Agoulon, Nathalie Boulanger, Karen D. McCoy and Olivier Plantard with the recently published book "Ticks and tick-borne diseases: biology, evolutionary ecology, epidemiology"(Station Biologique de Sète, March 2016, at the last meeting of the "Ticks and Transmitted Diseases" group of the Ecology of Sustainable Interactions Network). © Inra Laurence Malandrin, UMR BioEpAR Thierry Hoch, UMR BioEpAR Ionut Pavel, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gregoire Perez, UMR BioEpAR

The book entitled "Ticks and tick-borne diseases: biology, evolutionary ecology, epidemiology", published in May 2016, provides a synthesis of our knowledge of the biology of these vectors. Coordinated by Karen McCoy (CNRS, Mivegec, Montpellier) and Nathalie Boulanger (University of Pharmacy of Strasbourg), this book is the result of the work of 29 different authors from 10 laboratories (including 5 INRA laboratories, with the  UMR Inra-Oniris BioEpAR  in Nantes being the largest numerical contributor; with 6 authors among the 29 involved in the writing of 4 of the 9 chapters : Olivier Plantard, Ionut Pavel, Albert Agoulon, Thierry Hoch, Grégoire Perez, Laurence Malandrin). This collective work would not have been possible without the annual meetings of the "Ticks and Transmitted Diseases" group of the "Ecology of Sustainable Interactions" Network ("TMT du REID" for those close to them) which, by allowing better mutual knowledge of institutional researchers from the various research organisations working on ticks (CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Universities...) but also of some health professionals (doctors, veterinarians...) have provided fertile ground for the launch of this ambitious initiative launched in November 2012.

This book is not an identification guide (but is intended to complement Claudine Perez-Eid's work published in 2007). It is the first and most complete (336 pages) work on ticks in French language. It should be an important reference for anyone (veterinarians, doctors, researchers, students...) interested in ticks and the diseases they spread.

For more information :

www.editions.ird.fr/produit/349/9782709921008/Tiques%20et%20maladies%20a%20tiques

Contents

1. EVOLUTION, SYSTEMATICS AND DIVERSITY OF TICKS
   Olivier Plantard, Ionut Pavel, Laurence Vial
2. TICK BIOLOGY
   Sarah Bonnet, Karine Huber, Guy Joncour, Magalie René-Martellet, Frédéric Stachurski, Lionel Zenner
3. TICK POPULATION DYNAMICS AND LINKAGE TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
   Albert Agoulon, Alain Butet, Thierry Hoch, Grégoire Perez, Olivier Plantard, Hélène Verheyden, Gwenaël Vourc'h
4. POPULATION STRUCTURING AND TICK ADAPTATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY
   Karen D. McCoy, Christine Chevillon
5. INVASIVE TICKS
   Christine Chevillon, Karine Huber
6. TICK-HOST INTERFACE AND PATHOGEN TRANSMISSION
   Sarah Bonnet, Jean-Claude George, Nathalie Boulanger
7. MAJOR TICK-BORNE DISEASES: EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC
   Sara Moutailler, Jean-Claude George, Yves Hansmann, Brigitte Degeilh, Guy Joncour, Elsa Jourdain, Laurence Malandrin, Gérald Umhang, Muriel Vayssier-Taussat, Laurence Vial, Sarah Bonnet, Nathalie Boulanger
8. MODIFYING AND MODELLING THE RISK OF TICK-BORNE DISEASES
   Maud Marsot, Thierry Hoch, Grégoire Perez, Elsa Léger, Hélène Verheyden, Céline Richomme, Gwenaël Vourc'h
9. TICK POPULATION CONTROL AND PREVENTION: VETERINARY AND HUMAN ASPECTS

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Associated Department: Santé animale

Associated Centres : Angers-Nantes Pays de la Loire, Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes