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Unexplained Recurrent Fevers and the Importance of Inquiring About Occupation: A Case Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
INTRODUCTION Many different tick-borne diseases are identified in various geographical areas throughout the United States. Ixodes scapularis tick-borne diseases can present unique diagnostic challenges because of their constellation of vague symptoms ...
Maru, DO, Poonam, Reese, MS4, Zachary
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Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +17 more
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Tick-borne rickettsioses in international travellers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Background: Tick-borne rickettsioses are of emerging importance in today’s travel medicine but have until recently received little attention. We describe the current knowledge of tick-borne rickettsioses as they relate to international travel, their ...
Fournier, Pierre-Edouard   +2 more
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Redox Imbalance and Its Metabolic Consequences in Tick-Borne Diseases

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
One of the growing global health problems are vector-borne diseases, including tick-borne diseases. The most common tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and babesiosis.
Monika Groth   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

UMaine Tick Surveillance Program Annual Report 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Effects of temperature on bacterial microbiome composition in Ixodes scapularis ticks

open access: yesMicrobiologyOpen, 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological aspects of bovine trypanosomosis in an endemic focus of eastern Zambia: The role of trypanosome strain variability in disease pattern

open access: yesOnderstepoort 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
doaj   +1 more source

The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A Brief Measure of Multi-System Symptom Burden in Lyme Disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2019
Introduction: The multi-system symptoms accompanying acute and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome pose a challenge for time-limited assessment. The General Symptom Questionnaire (GSQ-30) was developed to fill the need for a brief patient-reported ...
Brian A. Fallon   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1991
Investigation of the epidemiology of Lyme disease depends upon information generated from several sources. Human disease surveillance can be conducted by both passive and active means involving physicians, public health agencies and laboratories. Passive
Dennis J White
doaj   +1 more source

Capture Sequencing Enables Sensitive Detection of Tick-Borne Agents in Human Blood

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Assay sensitivity can be a limiting factor in the use of PCR as a tool for the detection of tick-borne pathogens in blood. We evaluated the performance of Tick-borne disease Capture Sequencing Assay (TBDCapSeq), a capture sequencing assay targeting tick ...
Santiago Sanchez-Vicente   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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