A tick-related microorganism must take various steps to cause disease. Each step is influenced by many factors, including the characteristics of the microorganism. These characteristics affect every step of transmission and are therefore not listed separately. Tick-borne pathogen - reversed and conventional discovery of disease: Tijsse-Klasen E, Koopmans MP, Sprong H - Frontiers in public health (2014). Not altered. CC.
Microorganisms cause disease by infiltration and infection.