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

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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Borrelia valaisiana – a candidate human pathogen? Insights from the tick-borne diseases STING study [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Borrelia (B.) valaisiana is a tick-borne spirochete within the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. In Sweden, it occurs in Ixodes ricinus ticks, but its role as a human pathogen remains uncertain.
Julia Levin, Malin Lager, Marika Nordberg, Dag Nyman, Pia Forsberg, Per-Eric Lindgren, Anna J Henningsson, Peter Wilhelmsson, Johanna Sjöwall   +8 more
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Recent Progress on Tick-Borne Animal Diseases of Veterinary and Public Health Significance in China

Viruses, 2022
Ticks and tick-borne diseases pose a growing threat to human and animal health, which has brought great losses to livestock production. With the continuous expansion of human activities and the development of natural resources, there are more and more ...
Weijuan Jia, Si Chen, Shanshan Chi, Yunjiang He, Linzhu Ren, Xueli Wang   +5 more
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Retrospective molecular analyses of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from patients admitted to the Centre for Tick-Borne Diseases in Central Europe, Hungary (1999–2021), in relation to clinical symptoms [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background This study aimed at investigating the diversity of pathogens in human-biting ixodid ticks, in relation to their seasonality and associated clinical symptoms.
Sándor Hornok, Nóra Takács, Gyöngyi Nagy, András Lakos   +3 more
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Linking tick and wildlife host distributions to map risk of tick-borne diseases [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Tick-borne pathogens threaten livestock worldwide, causing diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis, heartwater and theileriosis in cattle. The epidemiology of each disease is complex, with multiple tick and/or host species interacting across
José-María García-Carrasco, David W. Crowder, Karen C. Poh, Juan Mosqueda, Massaro W. Ueti, Javier Gutierrez-Illan   +5 more
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The Scenario of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens of Sheep on a Mediterranean Island

Microorganisms, 2022
Ticks and transmitted pathogens constitute a major concern for livestock health/welfare and productivity for the Mediterranean region, often posing an important zoonotic threat.
Anastasios Saratsis, Panagiota Ligda, Fredie Aal, Mandy Jelicic, Juliette Polgar, Myrthe de Vries, Ioannis Mastranestasis, Vincenzo Musella, Laura Rinaldi, Frans Jongejan, Smaragda Sotiraki   +10 more
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Acceptance of diagnosis and management satisfaction of patients with “suspected Lyme borreliosis” after 12 months in a multidisciplinary reference center: a prospective cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Introduction Because patients with a “suspicion of Lyme borreliosis (LB)” may experience medical wandering and difficult care paths, often due to misinformation, multidisciplinary care centers were started all over Europe a few years ago.
Alice Raffetin, Amal Chahour, Julien Schemoul, Giulia Paoletti, Zhuoruo He, Elisabeth Baux, Solène Patrat-Delon, Steve Nguala, Pauline Caraux-Paz, Costanza Puppo, Pauline Arias, Yoann Madec, Sébastien Gallien, Julie Rivière   +13 more
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Amblyomma hebraeum is the predominant tick species on goats in the Mnisi Community Area of Mpumalanga Province South Africa and is co-infected with Ehrlichia ruminantium and Rickettsia africae

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background In sub-Saharan Africa, Amblyomma ticks are vectors of heartwater disease in domestic ruminants, caused by the rickettsial pathogen Ehrlichia ruminantium.
Frans Jongejan, Laura Berger, Suzanne Busser, Iris Deetman, Manon Jochems, Tiffany Leenders, Barry de Sitter, Francine van der Steen, Jeanette Wentzel, Hein Stoltsz   +9 more
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Methodological Quality Assessment with the AGREE II Scale and a Comparison of European and American Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Borreliosis: A Systematic Review

Pathogens, 2021
Background: Most European and American countries recently updated their guidelines on Lyme borreliosis (LB). The aim of this study was to provide a comparative overview of existing guidelines on the treatment of LB in Europe and America and to assess the
Steve Nguala, Elisabeth Baux, Solène Patrat-Delon, Florian Saunier, Julien Schemoul, Pierre Tattevin, Céline Cazorla, Carole Eldin, Kevin Bouiller, Alice Raffetin   +9 more
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Multidisciplinary Management of Suspected Lyme Borreliosis: Clinical Features of 569 Patients, and Factors Associated with Recovery at 3 and 12 Months, a Prospective Cohort Study

Microorganisms, 2022
Introduction. Because patients with a suspicion of Lyme borreliosis (LB) may have experienced difficult care paths, the Tick-Borne Diseases Reference Center (TBD-RC) was started in 2017.
Alice Raffetin, Julien Schemoul, Amal Chahour, Steve Nguala, Pauline Caraux-Paz, Giulia Paoletti, Anna Belkacem, Fernanda Medina, Catherine Fabre, Sébastien Gallien, Nicolas Vignier, Yoann Madec, on the behalf of the Tick-Borne Diseases Reference Center-Paris and Northern Region Working Group   +12 more
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