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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 +2 more
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Tick-Borne Pathogens and Diseases in Greece [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are recognized as a serious and growing public health epidemic in Europe, and are a cause of major losses in livestock production worldwide. This review is an attempt to present a summary of results from studies conducted over the last century until the end of the year 2020 regarding ticks, tick-borne pathogens, and tick ...
Artemis Efstratiou +2 more
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Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat [PDF]
, 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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Unexplained Recurrent Fevers and the Importance of Inquiring About Occupation: A Case Report [PDF]
, 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 Diseases [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2020 Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick populations and to detect and treat infections caused by the pathogens that they transmit. This review covers tick-borne infectious diseases of nonrickettsial bacterial,
Elizabeth B. Kauffman +3 more
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Editorial for the Special Issue: “Tick-Borne Encephalitis”
Microorganisms, 2023 Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a disease caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) [...]
Daniel Ruzek
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Spatiotemporal spread of tick-borne encephalitis in the EU/EEA, 2012 to 2020
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023 Background Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a vaccine-preventable disease involving the central nervous system. TBE became a notifiable disease on the EU/EEA level in 2012.
Jasper Van Heuverswyn +14 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018 Ticks are the major vectors of most disease-causing agents to humans, companion animals and wildlife. Moreover, ticks transmit a greater variety of pathogenic agents than any other blood-feeding arthropod.
D. Sonenshine
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Ticks and tick-borne diseases [PDF]
Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses, 2019 Ticks are a major group of arthropod vectors, characterized by the diversity of pathogens they transmit, by their impact on human and animal health, and by their socioeconomic implication especially in countries of the Southern Hemisphere. In Europe, Ixodes is the most important tick due to its wide distribution in the ecosystems and the variety of ...
Nathalie Boulanger +3 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 +2 more
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