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Effects of Climate Change on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Europe [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2009
Zoonotic tick-borne diseases are an increasing health burden in Europe and there is speculation that this is partly due to climate change affecting vector biology and disease transmission.
J. S. Gray, H. Dautel, A. Estrada-Peña, O. Kahl, E. Lindgren   +4 more
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Changing geographic ranges of ticks and tick-borne pathogens: drivers, mechanisms and consequences for pathogen diversity. [PDF]

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2013
The geographic ranges of ticks and tick-borne pathogens are changing due to global and local environmental (including climatic) changes. In this review we explore current knowledge of the drivers for changes in the ranges of ticks and tick-borne pathogen
Nicholas eOgden
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Surveillance of Borrelia miyamotoi-carrying ticks and genomic analysis of isolates in Inner Mongolia, China

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background Borrelia miyamotoi is a newly described relapsing fever spirochete transmitted by ixodid tick species. Little is known about the prevalence of B. miyamotoi infections in humans and ticks in Inner Mongolia, China. Therefore, we investigated the
Gaowa, Wulantuya, Kozue Sato, Dan Liu, Yunhong Cui, Xuhong Yin, Lihua Zhang, Hong Li, Tingfu Wang, Rongxin Liu, Lijing Wu, Saixia Lu, Ting Gao, Zitong Zhang, Minzhi Cao, Guodong Wang, Chunpu Li, Dacheng Yan, Norio Ohashi, Shuji Ando, Hiroki Kawabata   +20 more
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Molecular Epidemiology and Phylogeny of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) Virus of Ixodid Ticks in Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2021
Background: Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a fatal disease caused by Nairovirus classified within the Bunyaviridae family. The virus is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected ticks or direct contact with viremic animals or humans.
Hossein Maghsood, Sedigheh Nabian, Parviz Shayan, Tahmineh Jalali, Meysam Saboor Darbandi, Mohammad Mehdi Ranjbar   +5 more
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The Impact of Tick-Borne Diseases on the Bone

Microorganisms, 2021
Tick-borne infectious diseases can affect many tissues and organs including bone, one of the most multifunctional structures in the human body. There is a scarcity of data regarding the impact of tick-borne pathogens on bone.
Imran Farooq, Tara J. Moriarty
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Upscaling the surveillance of tick-borne pathogens in the French Caribbean Islands [PDF]

, 2020
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, Aprelon, Rosalie, Delannoy, Sabine, Devillers, Elodie, Galon, Clémence, Gondard, Mathilde, Moutailler, Sara, Pinarello, Valérie, Pradel, Jennifer, Vayssier-Taussat, Muriel   +9 more
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens from Wild Pigs in Northern and Central Florida [PDF]

, 2023
Simple Summary Ticks are vectors of several agents of human disease, and improvements to traditional surveillance methods are needed to aid in tick-borne disease monitoring and prevention.
Campbell, Lindsay P., Kaufman, Phillip E., Mays Maestas, Sarah E., Milleson, Michael P., Reeves, Lawrence E., Wisely, Samantha M.   +5 more
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UMaine Tick Surveillance Program Annual Report 2020 [PDF]

, 2021
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab conducts surveillance of ticks and tick-borne pathogens to track their distribution, detect trends or changes in tick activity, and to identify areas of risk for tick-borne disease in Maine. In 2019,
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
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Comparison of the Bacterial Gut Microbiome of North American Triatoma spp. With and Without Trypanosoma cruzi

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Chagas disease, caused by the hemoflagellate protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects nearly 6 million people worldwide, mainly in Latin America. Hematophagous triatomine insects (“kissing bugs”) are the primary vectors of T.
Allison E. Mann, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, Yan Zhang, Rachel Curtis-Robles, Santosh Thapa, Santosh Thapa, Santosh Thapa, Sarah A. Hamer, Michael S. Allen   +8 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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