Abstract
Tick-borne Diseases Transmission Research: Co-Feeding in Ticks Tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis are primarily transmitted during the blood feeding process, through systemic and co-feeding horizontal transmission routes. In this article, Research Professor Jianhong Wu explores transmission routes explaining that systemic transmission involves the transmission of the pathogen from infectious ticks to susceptible hosts, and the transmission of pathogen from infectious hosts back to susceptible feeding ticks. Co-feeding transmission provides an exchange of tick-borne pathogens between co-feeding infected and susceptible ticks (perhaps at different stages) directly even though pathogens have not been established within the reservoir host.
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