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Emerging Tick-Borne Infections
Annales Nestlé (English ed.), 2009Tick-borne infections occur worldwide and have been well known for more than 100 years. Some tick-borne diseases are very common while others are extremely rare. Modern molecular genetic techniques (and the wider availability of polymerase chain reaction) have lead to the discovery and classification of new pathogenic agents, especially for the order ...
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Tick-borne Infections in the United States
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2013Patients with illnesses caused by ticks may present with flulike symptoms. Physicians should learn how to recognize these illnesses by specific aspects in the patients' histories and physical examinations. Prevention of mortality and morbidity may depend on correct early diagnosis and treatment.
George G A, Pujalte, Joel V, Chua
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Rickettsial and Other Tick-Borne Infections
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2007Tick bites are best prevented by people avoiding tick-infested areas. When this is not possible, tick bites may be prevented by the wearing of long trousers that are tucked into boots. The best method to avoid tick bites is twofold: application of a topical deet (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) repellent to exposed skin, and treatment of clothing with ...
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Lyme Disease: a Tick-borne Infection
La Revue de l'Infirmière, 2019Laurie, Sophie's sister, was bitten in the arm by an infected tick and has developed Lyme disease. Sophie investigates further into the diagnosis, treatment and complications of the disease, in order to be able to give Laurie accurate advice.
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Tick-Borne Borrelia Infection in Sweden
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1985Spirochetes were cultivated from 17% of 114 Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Stockholm area. Three strains of these spirochetes were selected for studies by electron microscopy. These three strains had definite morphological similarities to spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, as judged by the number of flagella, absence of cytoplasmic tubules, and dimensions.
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2018
Tick-borne disease is rare in the neonatal population, but an index of suspicion must exist for those infants that present with these unusual illnesses, such that appropriate treatment can be initiated as soon as possible. Obtaining a thorough clinical history from the parents of a child is of vital importance when assessing for a potential infection ...
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Tick-borne disease is rare in the neonatal population, but an index of suspicion must exist for those infants that present with these unusual illnesses, such that appropriate treatment can be initiated as soon as possible. Obtaining a thorough clinical history from the parents of a child is of vital importance when assessing for a potential infection ...
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Tick-borne infections in Central Europe.
2021Abstract This expert opinion discusses how global warming and climate change impact (i) geographic expansion of indigenous tick species; (ii) tick survival and abundance in certain areas including urban parks and gardens; (iii) seasonal tick questing activities, increasing the number of infected hosts and the probability of pathogen ...
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[Ehrlichiosis: a tick-born infection].
Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego, 1999Ehrlichiosis is the potentially life-threating infection. It is caused by obligate intracellular bacteria. The clinical presentations are fever, headache, myalgia, malaise, nausea, vomiting and other nonspecyfic symptoms. Some patients develop neurologic symptoms and signs. The are two distinct forms of human ehrlichiosis: human monocytic ehrlichiosis /
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Tick-borne viral haemorrhagic fever infections.
2021Abstract This expert opinion discusses a group of tick-transmitted viruses that can cause a bonafide haemorrhagic fever in the human incidental host. It also discusses the potential impact of climatic change on virus-vector-host dynamics and on the distribution and intensity of disease.
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[Tick-borne infections in Denmark].
Ugeskrift for laeger, 2018The castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus, is common in woodlands in most of Denmark. Besides Borrelia burgdorferi, it can harbour a number of pathogenic microorganisms such as tick-borne encephalitis virus, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia helvetica, Francisella tularensis, Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Bartonella spp., Borrelia miyamotoi and ...
Bo Bødker, Jensen +5 more
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