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Tick-Borne Diseases and Pregnancy: A Narrative Review Evaluating Pregnancy Complications Caused by Tick-Borne Diseases

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Ticks are vectors of public health concern because the pathogens they transmit can cause detrimental diseases in humans. Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne encephalitis ...
Michael W. Curtis, Job E. Lopez
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Ticks Tick Borne Dis [PDF]

As part of a TickNET collaboration we evaluated the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to tick-borne disease (TBD) prevention among persons living in endemic areas of Connecticut (CT) and Maryland (MD).

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Tick-borne diseases under the radar in the North Sea Region [PDF]

, 2023
The impact of tick-borne diseases caused by pathogens such as Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Borrelia miyamotoi, Rickettsia helvetica and Babesia species on public health is largely unknown.
Mavin, Sally, Karen A. Krogfelt, Strube, Christina,, Mavin, Sally,, Quarsten, Hanne,, Henningsson, Anna J.,, Hanne Quarsten, Christina Strube, Wennerås, Christine, Anna Henningsson, Krogfelt, Karen,, Quarsten, Hanne, Henningsson, Anna, Krogfelt, Karen, Henningsson, Anna J., Wenneras, Christine,, Christine Wennerås, Sally Mavin, Strube, Christina   +18 more
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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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Rickettsiosis subcommittee report to the tick-borne disease working group.

, 2022
Tick-borne rickettsial infections are serious, common, and difficult to diagnose. Among the most important factors leading to failure to diagnose and treat tick-borne rickettsioses effectively is a lack of consideration of the potential diagnosis by ...
Bloch, Karen C, Myers, Cdr Todd E, Walker, David H, Gaines, David N, Fowler, Vance G, Blanton, Lucas S, Paddock, Christopher D, Yaglom, Hayley D   +7 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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Collateral benefits of restricted insecticide application for control of African trypanosomiasis on Theileria parva in cattle: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
Tick and tsetse-borne diseases (TTBDs) constrain livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Of this community of endemic diseases, East coast fever (T.parva) is the most important tick-borne disease (TBD) accounting for 70% of
Picozzi, Kim, Waiswa, Charles, Kabasa, John David, Jan Hatendorf, Dennis Muhanguzi, Susan Welburn, Charles Waiswa, John Kabasa, Thrusfield, Michael, Welburn, Susan Christina, Muhanguzi, Dennis, Michael Thrusfield, Hatendorf, Jan, Kim Picozzi   +13 more
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Induction of humoral immune response to multiple recombinant Rhipicephalus appendiculatus antigens and their effect on tick feeding success and pathogen transmission [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Rhipicephalus appendiculatus is the primary vector of Theileria parva, the etiological agent of East Coast fever (ECF), a devastating disease of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa.
Scoles, Glen A., Stephen Mwaura, Odongo, David O., Glen A. Scoles, David O. Odongo, Olds, Cassandra L., David Odongo (3497480), Richard Bishop (59737), Richard Bishop, Claudia Daubenberger (212658), Glen Scoles (3448283), Daubenberger, Claudia, Stephen Mwaura (3485219), Bishop, Richard, Cassandra L. Olds, Mwaura, Stephen, Claudia Daubenberger, Cassandra Olds (3485216)   +17 more
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Effects of temperature on bacterial microbiome composition in Ixodes scapularis ticks

MicrobiologyOpen, 2019
Ixodes scapularis, the blacklegged deer tick, is the principal vector of Lyme disease in North America. Environmental factors are known to influence regional and seasonal incidence of Lyme disease and possibly the endemicity of the disease to the ...
Santosh Thapa, Yan Zhang, Michael S. Allen   +2 more
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Epidemiological aspects of bovine trypanosomosis in an endemic focus of eastern Zambia: The role of trypanosome strain variability in disease pattern

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2012
Bovine trypanosomosis displays various epidemiological aspects in various areas. In some instances the disease has a high prevalence in animals with high impact on production whereas in other cases the disease has a low impact on production despite a ...
Justin Masumu, G. Tshilenge, V. Mbao
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