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Pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti in TLR4‐Competent and TLR4‐dysfunctional C3H mice

Cellular Microbiology, 2021
Toll‐like receptors (TLRs) are a class of membrane‐spanning proteins of host cells. TLR2 and TLR4 are displayed on the surface of macrophages, neutrophils and dendritic cells and recognise structurally conserved microbial signatures defined as Pathogen ...
L. Akoolo, V. Djokic, S. C. Rocha, N. Parveen   +3 more
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Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera : Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari : Ixodidae) from Hungary [PDF]

, 2006
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, Sréter, Tamás, Sréter-Lancz, Z., Széll, Z., Tornyai, K.   +4 more
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Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat [PDF]

, 2015
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, Chen, Wan-Jun, Fang, Li-Qun, Gray, Gregory C., Jiang, Jia-Fu, Krause, Peter J., Li, Hao, Li, Xin-Lou, Liang, Song, Liu, Kun, Liu, Wei, Ma, Mai-Juan, Sun, Ruo-Xi, Sun, Ye, Yang, X. Frank, Yang, Yang, Yao, Hong-Wu, Zuo, Shu-Qing   +17 more
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Reclassification of Theileria annae as Babesia vulpes sp. nov.

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
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, Monica Florin-Christensen, Luís Cardoso, Leonhard Schnittger   +3 more
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Two Cases of Co-Infection with Babesiosis and Lyme Disease [PDF]

, 2012
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, Jungkind, PhD, Donald, Kelly, MD, Cecilia, Latreille, MD, Michael, Peiris, MD, B. Niluk   +4 more
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Ixodes ricinus and Its Transmitted Pathogens in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Europe: New Hazards and Relevance for Public Health. [PDF]

, 2014
Tick-borne diseases represent major public and animal health issues worldwide. Ixodes ricinus, primarily associated with deciduous and mixed forests, is the principal vector of causative agents of viral, bacterial, and protozoan zoonotic diseases in ...
Bonnet, Sarah, Földvári, Gábor, Hubálek, Zdeněk, Kazimírová, Mária, Obiegala, Anna, Plantard, Olivier, Rizzoli, Annapaola, Rudolf, Ivo, Silaghi, Cornelia, Spitalská, Eva, Vayssier-Taussat, Muriel   +10 more
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Response of Leucine-Rich Repeat Domain-Containing Protein in Haemaphysalis longicornis to Babesia microti Infection and Its Ligand Identification

Infection and Immunity, 2021
Haemaphysalis longicornis is a blood-feeding hard tick known for transmitting a variety of pathogens, including Babesia. How the parasites in the imbibed blood become anchored in the midgut of ticks is still unknown. ABSTRACT Haemaphysalis longicornis is
Jialing Yao, Zhengmao Xu, Zeyu Sun, Keke Zhou, Jinmiao Lu, R. Mi, Y. Huang, Xiangan Han, Keyi Ren, Zhaoguo Chen, Haiyan Gong   +10 more
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Combined Immunofluorescence (IFA) and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Assays for Diagnosing Babesiosis in Patients from the USA, Europe and Australia

Diagnostics, 2020
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, Eddie Caoili, Marie Fe Patton, Snehal Tamhankar, Mu Mu Myint, Akhila Poruri, Olivia Mark, Richard I. Horowitz, Alan D. Ashbaugh, Ranjan Ramasamy   +9 more
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Multiple piroplasm parasites (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) in northeastern populations of the invasive Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the United States

Parasitology, 2023
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, Julia González, Francisco C. Ferreira, Dina M. Fonseca   +3 more
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Impact of co-infections in Lyme disease [PDF]

, 2016
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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