Are Orienteers Protected Enough against Tick Bites? Estimating Human Exposure to Tick Bites through a Participative Science Survey during an Orienteering Competition [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 International audienceMass-participation events in temperate forests are now well-established features of outdoor activities and represent high-risk activities regarding human exposition to tick bites.
Laure Bournez +2 more
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Personal protection measures to prevent tick bites in the United States: Knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities [PDF]
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2022 Lars Eisen
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Retrospective Study of Tick Bites Associated with Neurological Disease in a Level Three University Hospital in Switzerland. [PDF]
Infect Dis Rep, 2023 Background: Ticks represent very important vectors of human and zoonotic pathogens, and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are diagnosed with increasing frequency.
Thalmann P +3 more
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Prevention of tick bites: an evaluation of a smartphone app. [PDF]
BMC Infect Dis, 2017 Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common reported tick-borne infection in Europe, and involves transmission of Borrelia by ticks. As long as a vaccine is not available and effective measures for controlling tick populations are insufficient, LB control ...
Antonise-Kamp L +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most frequent tick-borne disease in France. In the absence of a vaccine, LB prevention mainly relies on reducing tick bites.
Alexandra Septfons +5 more
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A prospective study among patients presenting at the general practitioner with a tick bite or erythema migrans in The Netherlands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND:We performed a nationwide prospective study on the transmission risk for Borrelia to humans, investigating symptoms and serology at enrolment and three months after tick bites, and after standard treatment for erythema migrans (EM).
Agnetha Hofhuis +6 more
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THE PREVALENCE OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS ANTIGEN IN SERUM SAMPLES FROM PEOPLE SUFFERED FROM TICK BITES [PDF]
Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2013 The information about more than 17 thousand cases of public inquiries to the Center of Diagnostics and prevention of tick-borne infections of Scientific Center of Problems Family and Human Reproduction Problems because of bites of ticks at the territory ...
A^. .. Liapunov +8 more
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Factors Associated with Tick Bite Preventive Practices among Farmworkers in Malaysia.
PLoS ONE, 2016 BackgroundFarmworkers are at high-risk for tick bites, which potentially transmit various tick-borne diseases. Previous studies show that personal prevention against tick bites is key, and certain factors namely, knowledge, experience of tick bites, and ...
Masoumeh Ghane Kisomi +9 more
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Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2023 In recent decades, a significant increase in the incidence of tick-borne viral encephalitis (TBVE) and the number of people attacked by ticks has been recorded in the European North of Russia.The aim of the study was to analyze the dynamics of the TBVE ...
A. A. Tronin +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of risk perceptions and exposure for protective behaviour against tick bites and the related diseases Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), both of which are growing health concerns.
Daniel Slunge, Anders Boman
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