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Uptake and fecal excretion of Coxiella burnetii by Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor marginatus ticks [PDF]

, 2020
Background: The bacterium Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever and is mainly transmitted via inhalation of infectious aerosols. DNA of C.
Henning, Klaus, Körner, Sophia, Makert, Gustavo R., Mertens‑Scholz, Katja, Nijhof, Ard M., Pfeffer, Martin, Starke, Alexander, Ulbert, Sebastian   +7 more
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Novel foci of Dermacentor reticulatus ticks infected with Babesia canis and Babesia caballi in the Netherlands and in Belgium

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Autochthonous populations of Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in the Netherlands were discovered after fatal cases of babesiosis occurred in resident dogs in 2004. The presence of D.
Frans Jongejan, Moniek Ringenier, Michael Putting, Laura Berger, Stefan Burgers, Reinier Kortekaas, Jesse Lenssen, Marleen van Roessel, Michiel Wijnveld, Maxime Madder   +9 more
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Acceptance of diagnosis and management satisfaction of patients with “suspected Lyme borreliosis” after 12 months in a multidisciplinary reference center: a prospective cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Introduction Because patients with a “suspicion of Lyme borreliosis (LB)” may experience medical wandering and difficult care paths, often due to misinformation, multidisciplinary care centers were started all over Europe a few years ago.
Alice Raffetin, Amal Chahour, Julien Schemoul, Giulia Paoletti, Zhuoruo He, Elisabeth Baux, Solène Patrat-Delon, Steve Nguala, Pauline Caraux-Paz, Costanza Puppo, Pauline Arias, Yoann Madec, Sébastien Gallien, Julie Rivière   +13 more
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Cross-sectional analysis of Piroplasma species-infecting camel (Camelus dromedaries) in Egypt using a multipronged molecular diagnostic approach

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
Camel piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease (TBD) caused by hemoprotozoan parasites. Hereby, we describe a cross-sectional study aiming at identifying Piroplasma spp.-infecting camels in Egypt using a multipronged molecular diagnostic approach.
Olfat A. Mahdy, Ahmed M. Nassar, Bassma S. M. Elsawy, Bassma S. M. Elsawy, Heba F. Alzan, Heba F. Alzan, Heba F. Alzan, Omnia M. Kandil, Mona S. Mahmoud, Mona S. Mahmoud, Carlos E. Suarez, Carlos E. Suarez   +11 more
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Bacterial microbiomes of Ixodes scapularis ticks collected from Massachusetts and Texas, USA

BMC Microbiology, 2019
Background The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the primary vector of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in North America. Though the tick is found across the eastern United States, Lyme disease is endemic to the northeast and upper ...
Santosh Thapa, Yan Zhang, Michael S. Allen   +2 more
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Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease and Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Antibiotics, 2023
Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, is caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. While most patients with acute Lyme disease recover completely if treated with antibiotics shortly after the onset of ...
Nicholas Biniaz-Harris, Mara Kuvaldina, Brian A. Fallon   +2 more
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Metagenomic-based Surveillance of Pacific Coast tick Dermacentor occidentalis Identifies Two Novel Bunyaviruses and an Emerging Human Ricksettsial Pathogen. [PDF]

, 2017
An increasing number of emerging tick-borne diseases has been reported in the United States since the 1970s. Using metagenomic next generation sequencing, we detected nucleic acid sequences from 2 novel viruses in the family Bunyaviridae and an emerging ...
Bouquet, Jerome, Chiu, Charles Y, Delwart, Eric, Lane, Robert S, Melgar, Michael, Swei, Andrea   +5 more
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First report of the ticks Haemaphysalis punctata Canestrini et Fanzago, 1878, Haemaphysalis parva (Neumann, 1897) and Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) (Acari, Amblyommidae) from humans in Lebanon [PDF]

, 2020
Purpose: Knowledge on ticks infesting humans is scarce for the middle East. In this work, tick specimens (Acari: Amblyommidae) infesting humans in Lebanon were identified.
Azar, Dany, Perotti, M. Alejandra, Raad, Martin   +2 more
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Mixtures of compound Poisson processes as models of tick-by-tick financial data [PDF]

, 2006
A model for the phenomenological description of tick-by-tick share prices in a stock exchange is introduced. It is based on mixtures of compound Poisson processes.
Allegrini, Bertram, Cox, Edelman, Engle, Engle, Enrico Scalas, Gorenflo, Lundberg, M Gelfand, Mainardi, Meerschaert, Metzler, Metzler, Montroll, Press, Raberto, Scalas, Scalas, Scalas, Scalas   +20 more
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The first German map of georeferenced ixodid tick locations

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Georeferenced locations of ixodid ticks are required to depict the observed distribution of species. Further, they are used as input data for species distribution models also known as niche models.
Franz Rubel, Katharina Brugger, Masyar Monazahian, Birgit Habedank, Hans Dautel, Sandra Leverenz, Olaf Kahl   +6 more
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