Tibor Csörgő

TL;DR: The explosive spread of the lineage 2 WNV in 2008 described here remained not restricted to Hungary and Austria, but this virus dispersed further to the south to various Balkan states and reached northern Greece, where it caused the devastating neuroinvasive WND outbreak in humans in 2010.

TL;DR: Birds are potential reservoirs of both I. ricinus transmitted zoonotic pathogens, R. helvetica and A. phagocytophilum, but their epidemiological role appears to be less important concerning the latter, at least in Central Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the survival rate of owlets hatched in nest-boxes with those hatched in the more natural environment of church towers and found that owlets developing in nestboxes had significantly lower survival than those hatched on church towers.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that birds with urban or periurban habitats pose a high risk as tick carriers and reservoirs of zoonotic agents, especially of rickettsiae, in ticks of synanthropic birds.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the population structure and evolutionary biology of tick‐borne pathogens are shaped by their host associations and the movement patterns of these hosts is strengthened.