Predominant risk factors for tick-borne co-infections in hunting dogs from the USA
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Both incidence and geographical range of tick-borne disease has increased across the USA. Similar to people, dogs are hosts for Anaplasma spp., Babesia spp., Ehrlichia spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi.
Kurayi Mahachi +21 more
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Ticking on Pandora’s box: a prospective case-control study into ‘other’ tick-borne diseases
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background Tick-borne pathogens other than Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato – the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis – are common in Ixodes ricinus ticks. How often these pathogens cause human disease is unknown. In addition, diagnostic tools to identify
D. Hoornstra +8 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Ticks are dangerous ectoparasites of humans and animals, as they are important disease vectors and serve as hosts for various microorganisms (including a variety of pathogenic microorganisms).
Runlai Cao +16 more
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Using volunteered observations to map human exposure to ticks. [PDF]
, 2018 Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in Europe and its incidence has steadily increased over the last two decades. In the Netherlands alone, more than 20,000 citizens are affected by LB each year.
Garcia-Marti, Irene +3 more
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A framework for adaptive surveillance of emerging tick-borne zoonoses
One Health, 2019 Significant global ecological changes continue to drive emergence of tick-borne zoonoses around the world. This poses an important threat to both human and animal health, and highlights the need for surveillance systems that are capable of monitoring ...
Katie M. Clow +3 more
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Metagenomic profiling of ticks: Identification of novel rickettsial genomes and detection of tick-borne canine parvovirus [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Across the world, ticks act as vectors of human and animal pathogens. Ticks rely on bacterial endosymbionts, which often share close and complex evolutionary links with tick-borne pathogens.
Abdeen, Ziad +8 more
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Collection of Ticks for Surveillance of Disease Agents on a Mountain in Central Virginia [PDF]
, 2016 Tick-borne disease is found all over the world, and interest in disease surveillance for tick-borne illnesses has increased, partly because some of the illnesses are becoming more common.
Stanley, Heather E
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Parallelisms and Contrasts in the Diverse Ecologies of the Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi Complexes of Bacteria in the Far Western United States. [PDF]
, 2016 Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi are two tick-borne bacteria that cause disease in people and animals. For each of these bacteria, there is a complex of closely related genospecies and/or strains that are genetically distinct and have ...
Foley, Janet, Stephenson, Nicole
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Seroprevalence and Molecular Detection of Bovine Anaplasmosis in Egypt [PDF]
, 2020 Bovine anaplasmosis is a tick-borne disease with zoonotic potential, caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Anaplasma marginale. The disease is distributed worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions.
El-Adawy, Hosny +5 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseTicks 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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