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Tick bite prevention and tick removal [PDF]
BMJ, 2013 #### Summary points (advice for patients) Ticks are small blood feeding ectoparasites with a global distribution. They are important vectors of disease pathogens including rickettsiae, spirochaetes, and viruses. Prevention of tick attachment and rapid removal reduce the risk of contracting tickborne diseases, and there are many recommendations on how
Christina Due +4 more
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BMJ Case Reports, 2007 A 46-year-old man presented to the emergency department having noticed in the shower that morning an itchy black spot with some surrounding erythema on his genitals. Further enquiry revealed he had been enjoying the summer heat in shorts while walking in Hutt Wood, Southampton, the day before.
Nigel Harrison, David Utting
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Mixtures of compound Poisson processes as models of tick-by-tick financial data [PDF]
, 2006 A model for the phenomenological description of tick-by-tick share prices in a stock exchange is introduced. It is based on mixtures of compound Poisson processes.
Allegrini +20 more
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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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Metagenomic-based Surveillance of Pacific Coast tick Dermacentor occidentalis Identifies Two Novel Bunyaviruses and an Emerging Human Ricksettsial Pathogen. [PDF]
, 2017 An increasing number of emerging tick-borne diseases has been reported in the United States since the 1970s. Using metagenomic next generation sequencing, we detected nucleic acid sequences from 2 novel viruses in the family Bunyaviridae and an emerging ...
Bouquet, Jerome +5 more
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Parasitology, 2004 Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious agents. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens stimulate the immune system of the host.
S. K. Wikel, M. Brossard
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A note on intraday option pricing [PDF]
, 2013 Compound renewal processes can be used as an approximate phenomenological model of tick-by-tick price fluctuations. An exact and explicit general formula is derived for the martingale price of a European call option written on a compound renewal process.
Scalas, Enrico, Politi, Mauro
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The first German map of georeferenced ixodid tick locations
Parasites & Vectors, 2014 Background Georeferenced locations of ixodid ticks are required to depict the observed distribution of species. Further, they are used as input data for species distribution models also known as niche models.
Franz Rubel +6 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2015 The larval stages of Lasioptera donacis Coutin consist of three instars which develop within the mesophyll of the leaf sheaths of Arundo donax (L.) (Poaceae). The larvae feed aggregatively on mycelia of an ambrosia fungus.
Donald B. Thomas, John A. Goolsby
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