>doi. Larissa Almeida Martins, Giuseppe Palmisano, Mauro Cortez, Rebeca Kawahara, José Mario de Freitas Balanco, André Fujita, Beatriz Iglesias Alonso, Darci Moraes Barros‐Battesti, Gloria Regina Cardoso Braz, Lucas Tirloni, Eliane Esteves, Sirlei Da re and Andréa Cristina Fogaça. The intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii exerts an inhibitory effect on the apoptosis of tick cells. Parasites Vectors (2020) 13:603