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Background: Zoonotic Babesia infections are an emerging public health threat globally. The geographical distribution, animal reservoirs and tick vectors vary greatly across Babesia species, and estimations of prevalence reported in works within the ...
Xiao-Yan Yao +5 more
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Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera : Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari : Ixodidae) from Hungary [PDF]
Fleas (95 Pulex irritans, 50 Ctenocephalides felis, 45 Ctenocephalides canis) and ixodid ticks (223 Ixodes ricinus, 231 Dermacentor reticulatus, 204 Haemaphysalis concinna) were collected in Hungary and tested, in assays based on PCR, for Bartonella ...
Márialigeti, Károly +4 more
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Reclassification of Theileria annae as Babesia vulpes sp. nov.
Background Theileria annae is a tick-transmitted small piroplasmid that infects dogs and foxes in North America and Europe. Due to disagreement on its placement in the Theileria or Babesia genera, several synonyms have been used for this parasite ...
Gad Baneth +3 more
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Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat [PDF]
Since the beginning of the 1980s, 33 emerging tick-borne agents have been identified in mainland China, including eight species of spotted fever group rickettsiae, seven species in the family Anaplasmataceae, six genospecies in the complex Borrelia ...
Cao, Wu-Chun +17 more
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Upscaling the surveillance of tick-borne pathogens in the French Caribbean Islands [PDF]
Despite the high burden of vector-borne disease in (sub)tropical areas, few information are available regarding the diversity of tick and tick-borne pathogens circulating in the Caribbean.
Albina, Emmanuel +9 more
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Transient Transfection of the Zoonotic Parasite Babesia microti [PDF]
The development of genetic manipulation techniques has been reported in many protozoan parasites over the past few years. However, these techniques have not been established for Babesia microti. Here, we report the first successful transient transfection of B. microti. The plasmids containing the firefly luciferase reporter gene were transfected into B.
Mingming Liu +11 more
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Two Cases of Co-Infection with Babesiosis and Lyme Disease [PDF]
Case 1 The patient is a 71-year-old female with past medical history significant for hypothyroidism and hyperlipidemia who presented to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) with complaints of myalgias for 6 weeks duration. The patient stated that
DeCicco, MD, Anthony +4 more
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Apicomplexan parasites of the genus Babesia cause babesiosis in humans and animals worldwide. Human babesiosis is a predominantly zoonotic disease transmitted by hard ticks that is of increasing health concern in the USA and many other countries ...
Jyotsna S. Shah +9 more
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Piroplasms, which include the agents of cattle fever and human and dog babesiosis, are a diverse group of blood parasites of significant veterinary and medical importance.
Heidi Herb +3 more
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Impact of co-infections in Lyme disease [PDF]
Lyme disease is one of the most frequent tick-borne diseases worldwide, it can be multi-systemic and insidious, in particular when it shows a chronic course.
Bergamo, Serena, Stinco, Giuseppe
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