Ngoc DP, Ha TDT, Ngoc SN, Ngoc MP, Nhu ND, Farkas R, Teeraananchai S, Hornok S. The current status and predicted climate-driven range expansion of Rhipicephalus microplus in northern Vietnam. Acta Trop. 2025 Aug;268:107732. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2025.107732.
Lakos A, Nagy G, Varga Z, Rásonyi-Kovács P, Hornok S. Reassessing Chronic Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome as Focal Infections. Cureus. 2025 Aug 29;17(8):e91246. doi: 10.7759/cureus.91246.
Hornok S, Takács N, Nagy G, Lakos A. Retrospective molecular analyses of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from patients admitted to the Centre for Tick-Borne Diseases in Central Europe, Hungary (1999-2021), in relation to clinical symptoms. Parasit Vectors. 2025 Jun 20;18(1):229. doi: 10.1186/s13071-025-06880-2.
Hornok S, Keve G, Tuska-Szalay B. Transmission route-dependent genetic diversity of selected protozoan parasites as reflected by the phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rRNA gene. Acta Vet Hung. 2025 Mar 27;73(1):64-72. doi: 10.1556/004.2025.01128.
Hornok S, Kontschán J, Keve G, Takács N, Van Nguyen D, Ho KNP, Görföl T, Wang Y, Farkas R, Dao TTH. First report of Haemaphysalis bispinosa, molecular-geographic relationships of Ixodes granulatus and a new Dermacentor species from Vietnam. Parasit Vectors. 2025 Jan 23;18(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06641-7.
Halajian A, Cuozzo FP, Heyne H, Sauther ML, Linden B, Linden J, Tordiffe ASW, Rampedi KM, Hornok S. (2024) Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing bushbabies (Mammalia: Galagidae) in a biodiversity hotspot of northern South Africa. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases 15:2.102313 p.
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Fedorov D, Hornok S. (2024) Checklist of hosts, illustrated geographical range, and ecology of tick species from the genus Ixodes (Acari, Ixodidae) in Russia and other post-Soviet countries.
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Coroian M, Mihalca AD, Dobler G, Euringer K, Girl P, Borșan SD, Kalmár Z, Tincuța Briciu V, Flonta M, Topan A, Rădulescu AL, Ungur A, Lupșe MS. Seroprevalence Rates against West Nile, Usutu, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Viruses in Blood-Donors from North-Western Romania. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 4;19(13):8182. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19138182.
Hornok S, Szekeres S, Horváth G, Takács N, Bekő K, Kontschán J, Gyuranecz M, Tóth B, Sándor AD, Juhász A, Beck R, Farkas R. Diversity of tick species and associated pathogens on peri-urban wild boars - First report of the zoonotic Babesia cf. crassa from Hungary. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 May;13(3):101936. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101936.
Hornok S, Boldogh SA, Takács N, Sándor AD, Tuska-Szalay B. Zoonotic ecotype-I of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in sympatric wildcat, pine marten and red squirrel - Short communication. Acta Vet Hung. 2022 Aug 26. doi: 10.1556/004.2022.00021.
Kalmár Z, Briciu V, Coroian M, Flonta M, Rădulescu AL, Topan A, Mihalca AD, Lupșe M. Seroprevalence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in healthy blood donors in Romania: an update. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Dec 4;14(1):596. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05099-1.
Hornok S, Takács N, Sipos G, Morandini P, Sándor AD, Szekeres S, Grima A, Kontschán J. Urban emergence of Dermanyssus gallinae lineage L1 and Ornithonyssus sylviarum in Hungary: phylogenetic differentiation between the roles of migrating vs transported synanthropic birds. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Mar 8;14(1):147. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-04643-3.
Kalmár Z, Dumitrache MO, D'Amico G, Matei IA, Ionică AM, Gherman CM, Lupșe M, Mihalca AD. Multiple Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ixodes ricinus Ticks Collected from Humans in Romania. Pathogens. 2020 May 19;9(5):390. doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050390.
Koetsveld J, Platonov AE, Kuleshov K, Wagemakers A, Hoornstra D, Ang W, Szekeres S, van Duijvendijk GLA, Fikrig E, Embers ME, Sprong H, Hovius JW. Borrelia miyamotoi infection leads to cross-reactive antibodies to the C6 peptide in mice and men. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Apr;26(4):513.e1-513.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.07.026.
Matei IA, Kalmár Z, Lupşe M, D'Amico G, Ionică AM, Dumitrache MO, Gherman CM, Mihalca AD. The risk of exposure to rickettsial infections and human granulocytic anaplasmosis associated with Ixodes ricinus tick bites in humans in Romania: A multiannual study. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2017 Mar;8(3):375-378. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2016.12.013.
Hornok S, Kontschán J. The Western Conifer Seed Bug (Hemiptera: Coreidae) Has the Potential to Bite Humans. J Med Entomol. 2017 Jul 1;54(4):1073-1075. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx040.
Gyuranecz M, Sulyok K, Balla E, Mag T, Balazs A, Simor Z, Denes B, Hornok S, Bajnoczi P, Hornstra H, Pearson T, Keim P, Dan A. Q fever epidemic in Hungary, April to July 2013. Euro Surveill. 2014 Jul 31;19(30):20863. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.30.20863.
Hornok S, Dénes B, Meli ML, Tánczos B, Fekete L, Gyuranecz M, de la Fuente J, de Mera IG, Farkas R, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Non-pet dogs as sentinels and potential synanthropic reservoirs of tick-borne and zoonotic bacteria. Vet Microbiol. 2013 Dec 27;167(3-4):700-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.08.011.
Boretti FS, Perreten A, Meli ML, Cattori V, Willi B, Wengi N, Hornok S, Honegger H, Hegglin D, Woelfel R, Reusch CE, Lutz H, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Molecular Investigations of Rickettsia helvetica infection in dogs, foxes, humans, and Ixodes ticks. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 May;75(10):3230-7. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00220-09.
