Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (TTBD)

News (Juli 2010): TTBD accepted by MEDLINE

Imagine that the first issue of TTBD only appeared in March 2010, and now the journal is already listed by Thompson and it is clear that it will be reviewed in MEDLINE!
Our deepest thanks go to you all who gave so much inspiration and have invested so much time and expertise for this wonderful project! It's such a great pleasure to collaborate with each of you.
There will be definitely a short TTBD meeting in Zaragoza in late August to give you the latest infos about TTBD.

News (March 2010): TTBD is a listed journal now.

We are happy to announce, that 'Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases' will be included into the Thomson Reuters database (Web of Science, Current Contents). The respective application was just approved. This means TTBD is a listed journal now and will get an impact factor.

Aims and scope

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal that will appear quarterly. It publishes original research papers, short communications, state-of-the-art mini-reviews, letters to the editor, clinical-case studies, book reviews, 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:

1. Ticks: biosystematics/taxonomy, morphology, evolution, ecology, physiology/ biochemistry, behaviour, molecular biology, genomics/proteomics, and control
2. 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
3. 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

4. Tick-borne diseases in domestic animals and wildlife: epidemiology, diagnosis, immunology, treatment, vaccination, control/management, and economics
5. 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.