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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Abattoir Workers in Kumasi Towards Ticks and Tick‐Borne Pathogens

Public Health Challenges
The high dependence on livestock in Ghana comes with the risk of zoonotic tick‐borne pathogen infection. Abattoir workers are especially at risk due to their frequent contact with livestock that are infested with ticks and tick‐borne pathogens.
Seth Offei Addo, Margaret Addo, Michael E. DeWitt, Christopher Nii Laryea Tawiah‐Mensah, Stacy Amoah, Patrick Kwasi Obuam, Nancy Martekai Unicorn, Emmanuella Tiwaa Kyeremateng, Genevieve Desewu, John Asiedu Larbi   +9 more
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Evaluation of factors influencing tick bites and tick-borne infections: a longitudinal study. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors, 2021
Jensen BB, Bruun MT, Jensen PM, Pedersen AK, Fournier PE, Skarphedinsson S, Chen M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

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, Lopez, Job E, Curtis, Michael W   +3 more
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Space and resource use by American crow Corvus brachyrhynchos in an area endemic for chronic wasting disease

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
American crow Corvus brachyrhynchos is a common species throughout North America. Crows play a role in the ecology of multiple diseases and a single laboratory experiment has shown the potential for crows to pass infectious prions, such as those associated with chronic wasting disease (CWD), in their feces after being force‐fed with infected material ...
Tyler S. Walters, Kurt C. VerCauteren, W. David Walter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the timely diagnosis of tick-borne infections. [PDF]

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 2021
Wormser GP, Jacobson E, Shanker EM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tick borne bacterial infections in Tunisia

Pan African Medical Journal Conference Proceedings, 2018
Introduction : tick borne infections are caused by a variety of pathogens including bacteria viruses and protozoa that are transmitted through a tick bite. Rickettsioses are the most common vector borne diseases. They are considered as emerging and re-emerging infections.
openaire   +1 more source

Monitoring rodents' life history by body temperature and activity

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
European hamster populations are rapidly declining all over their distribution area. One of the suggested reasons is a strong and ongoing decrease in the reproductive output of about 77% since the nineteen twenties. The cause of this decline is, however, unknown.
S. Monecke, T. Gerrits, R. Brand, R. J. M. Van Kats, T. ter Meulen, P. Pévet, Monika Vadkertikova, Alp Altunkaya, G. J. D. M. Müskens, M. J. J. La Haye   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laboratory Methods for Detection of Infectious Agents and Serological Response in Humans With Tick-Borne Infections: A Systematic Review of Evaluations Based on Clinical Patient Samples. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2021
Henningsson AJ, Aase A, Bavelaar H, Flottorp S, Forsberg P, Kirkehei I, Lövmar M, Nilsson K, Nyman D, Ornstein K, Sjöwall J, Skogman BH, Tjernberg I, Aaberge I.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A concise overview on tick-borne human infections in Europe: a focus on Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne Rickettsia spp.

, 2018
International audienceTicks are blood-feeding external parasites of mammals. Almost all ticks belong to one of two major families, the Ixodidae or hard ticks, and the Argasidae or soft ticks.
Abou Abdallah, Rita, Raoult, Didier, Fournier, Pierre-Edouard, Didier Raoult, Rita Abou Abdallah, Pierre-Edouard Fournier   +5 more
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Biology, ecology, and conservation of the Italian hare Lepus corsicanus: a review

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The Italian hare Lepus corsicanus, an endemic lagomorph of Italy, serves as a critical case study in evolutionary biology and conservation. Once taxonomically debated, modern genetic and morphological analyses confirm its status as a distinct Pleistocene lineage restricted to the central‐southern Italian Peninsula and Sicily.
Pierangelo Freschi, Valter Trocchi
wiley   +1 more source