“…In Taiwan, numerous tick-borne pathogens have been detected in ticks and human patients, including Dabie bandavirus (Lin et al 2020), the Babesia microti protozoan (Shih et al 1997), and a wide range of bacterial organisms, such as Borrelia burgdorferi , Borrelia garinii , Borrelia afzelii (Chao et al 2010, 2011), Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Tsai et al 2019, Chang et al 2023), Ehrlichia chaffeensis (Peng et al 2019, Yen et al 2020), and several Rickettsia species (Kuo et al 2015, 2017, Yen et al 2021). Although ticks are frequently studied in Taiwan, most research has focused on ticks infesting dogs (e.g., Chao et al 2019) or rodents (e.g., Kuo et al 2011, 2015), with a few exceptions including studies on birds (Kuo et al 2017) or reptiles (e.g., Chao et al 2013, Kwak et al 2020).…”