Internal Research Plan of University of Castilla-La Mancha, Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, predoctoral grant 2020-PREDUCLM-16703 and mobility grant 2020-UNIVERS-9714/Movilidad. Government of Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM), Spain, through project BPLY/19/180501/000321. Co-financed by the different European funds: European Social Fund Next Generation EU European Regional Development Fund. Spanish Ministry for the Science and Innovation (MCI) projects: ERTA-2017-0003-C02-01 ERTA-2015-0002-C02-02 CGL2017-89866-R. ENETWILD project “Wildlife: collecting and sharing data on wildlife populations, transmitting animal disease agents”, contract number OC/EFSA/ALPHA/2016/01.

Ticks are vectors of a great diversity of pathogens, mainly bacteria, protists, and viruses, among others. These pathogens are the causative agents of diseases in a wide range of vertebrates and have a great impact on the health of wild and domestic animals. Moreover, ticks and the animals they parasitize are a reservoir of these pathogens that can become a problem for humans, not only at the economic level but also in terms of public health, since many of them are considered zoonotic diseases in constant evolution and emergence.

Trabajo presentado para optar al grado de Doctor por la Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha. Doctorado en Ciencias Agrarias y Ambientales.

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