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What Is the Best Predictor of Annual Lyme Disease Incidence: Weather, Mice, or Acorns? [PDF]
Predicting fluctuations in annual risk of Lyme disease would be useful in focusing public health efforts. However, several competing hypotheses have been proposed that point to weather variables, acorn production, or mouse abundance as important ...
Evans, Andrew S, Jr+2 more
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Awareness that Dogs Can Be Carriers for Ticks that Transmit Lyme Disease [PDF]
Background and Purpose: Tick exposure places one at possible risk for Lyme disease. Awareness of this fact can possibly prevent its occurrence. Urban college students are often in outdoor areas where there is potential tick exposure.
Co, Sherilyne, Fogel, Joshua
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A Large-Scale Dataset of Search Interests Related to Disease X Originating from Different Geographic Regions [PDF]
The World Health Organization added Disease X to their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic. During different virus outbreaks of the past, such as COVID-19, Influenza, Lyme Disease, and Zika virus, researchers from various disciplines utilized Google Trends to mine ...
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Potential of the Sterile Insect Technique for Control of Deer Ticks, $\textit{Ixodes scapularis}$ [PDF]
The deer tick, $\textit{Ixodes scapularis}$, is a vector for numerous human diseases, including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis. Concern is rising in the US and abroad as the population and range of this species grow and new diseases emerge. Herein I consider the potential for control of $\textit{I.
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Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. The clinical presentation varies depending on the stage of the illness: early disease includes erthyma migrans, early disseminated disease includes multiple erythema migrans, meningitis, cranial nerve palsies, and carditis; late ...
Thomas S, Murray, Eugene D, Shapiro
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The introgression of a synthetic sex ratio distortion transgene into two different genetic backgrounds of Anopheles coluzzii by six backcrosses. We showed that the phenotype of the sex ratio distorter is stabile in the introgressed An. coluzzii strains.
Paola Pollegioni+13 more
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Common Neurologic Features of Lyme Disease That May Present to a Rheumatologist
Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) infection, has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and severity. Patients with possible Lyme disease may seek out or be referred to rheumatologists.
Swati Govil+5 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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COP27 Climate Change Conference: Urgent action needed for Africa and the world
Australian Journal of Rural Health, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 836-838, December 2022.
Lukoye Atwoli+20 more
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Report of the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Lyme Disease Subcommittee of the HHS Tick Borne Disease Working Group [PDF]
An understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of Lyme disease is key to the ultimate care of patients with Lyme disease. To better understand the various mechanisms underlying the infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, the Pathogenesis and ...
Adams, Wendy A.+7 more
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