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.
Han X, Liu Z, Jiang Z, Zhao S, Hornok S, Yang M, Liu G, Wang Y. Detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae and Coxiella burnetii in long-tailed ground squirrels (Spermophilus undulatus) and their ectoparasites. Front Vet Sci. 2025 Mar 6;12:1553152. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1553152.
Tarján ZL, Szekeres S, Vidovszky MZ, Egyed L. Detection of circovirus in free-ranging brown rats (Rattus norvegicus). Infect Genet Evol. 2024 Mar;118:105548. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2023.105548. Epub 2024 Jan 2.
Ganzinelli S, Hamšíková Z, Földvári G, Szekeres S, Pfeffer M, Schnittger L, Kazimírová M. Phylogenetic analysis of a novel Hepatozoon species (Hepatozoon sp. SK3) and an additional yet unknown Hepatozoon species (Hepatozoon sp. BV2) besides H. erhardovae in small rodents from Central Europe. Parasitol Res. 2024 Jun 24;123(6):250. doi: 10.1007/s00436-024-08269-z
Li E, Wu X, Tang L, Yang M, Hornok S, Zhang C, Zhang Y, Zhao G, Wang Y. Molecular-phylogenetic analyses of Babesia and Theileria species from small mammals and their ticks in northern China suggest new reservoirs of bovine and equine piroplasms. Vet Parasitol. 2024 Dec;332:110304. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2024.110304.
Rusin M, Cetintas O, Ghazali M, Sandor AD, Yanchukov A. (2024) Underworld: evolution of blind mole rats in Eastern Europe. Mammalian Biology 16 p. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/001172928000001
Folkertsma R, Charbonnel N, Henttonen H, Heroldova M, Huitu O, Kotlik P, Manzo E, Paijmans JLA, Plantard O, Sandor AD, et al. (2024) Genomic signatures of climate adaptation in bank voles
Ecology and Evolution 14: 3 Paper: 10886, 19 p. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10886
Wang S, Wang S, Han X, Hornok S, Wang H, Wang N, Liu G, Yang M, Wang Y. (2024) Novel trypanosomatid species detected in Mongolian pikas (Ochotona pallasi) and their fleas in northwestern China.
Parasites and Vectors 17: 1. Paper: 152, 5 p. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06216-6
Liu G, Tan W, Wang H, Han X, Hornok S, Zhao S, Mi L, Wang S, Yang M, Wang Y. (2024) The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) as a host for tick species in Gurbantunggut Desert. Parasites and Vectors 17: 1 Paper: 55, 7 p.
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-024-06160-5
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.
Zookeys 1201: pp. 255-343., 89 p. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/115467/
Hornok S, Kontschán J, Takács N, Heyne H, Kovács ÁB, Plantard O, Halajian A et al. (2023). Molecular-phylogenetic analyses of Ixodes species from South Africa suggest an African origin of bird-associated exophilic ticks (subgenus Trichotoixodes). Parasites and Vectors 16(1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05998-5
Hornok S, Boldogh SA, Takács N, Kontschán J, Szekeres S, Sós E, Sándor AD, Wang Y, Tuska-Szalay B. Molecular epidemiological study on ticks and tick-borne protozoan parasites (Apicomplexa: Cytauxzoon and Hepatozoon spp.) from wild cats (Felis silvestris), Mustelidae and red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in central Europe, Hungary. Parasit Vectors. 2022 May 21;15(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05271-1.
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.
Hornok S, Daccord J, Takács N, Kontschán J, Tuska-Szalay B, Sándor AD, Szekeres S, Meli ML, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Investigation on haplotypes of ixodid ticks and retrospective finding of Borrelia miyamotoi in bank vole (Myodes glareolus) in Switzerland. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 Jan;13(1):101865. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101865.
Borşan SD, Toma-Naic A, Péter Á, Sándor AD, Peștean C, Mihalca AD. Impact of abiotic factors, habitat type and urban wildlife on the ecology of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in urban and peri-urban habitats. Parasit Vectors. 2020 Sep 18;13(1):476. doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04352-3.
Kalmár Z, Sándor AD, Matei IA, Ionică A, D'Amico G, Gherman CM, Mihalca AD. Borrelia spp. in small mammals in Romania. Parasit Vectors. 2019 Sep 24;12(1):461. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3713-3.
Zhao S, Yang M, Jiang M, Yan B, Zhao S, Yuan W, Wang B, Hornok S, Wang Y. Rickettsia raoultii and Rickettsia sibirica in ticks from the long-tailed ground squirrel near the China-Kazakhstan border. Exp Appl Acarol. 2019 Mar;77(3):425-433. doi: 10.1007/s10493-019-00349-5.
Matei IA, D'Amico G, Ionică AM, Kalmár Z, Corduneanu A, Sándor AD, Fiţ N, Bogdan L, Gherman CM, Mihalca AD. New records for Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in small mammal species. Parasit Vectors. 2018 Mar 20;11(1):193. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-2791-y.
Hornok S, Földvári G, Rigó K, Meli ML, Gönczi E, Répási A, Farkas R, Papp I, Kontschán J, Hofmann-Lehmann R. Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors. Parasit Vectors. 2015 Jan 15;8:27. doi: 10.1186/s13071-014-0630-3.
