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Using Risk Group Profiles as a Lightweight Qualitative Approach for Intervention Development: An Example of Prevention of Tick Bites and Lyme Disease

JMIR Research Protocols, 2013
BackgroundMany public health campaigns use a one-size-fits-all strategy to achieve their desired effect. Public health campaigns for tick bites and Lyme disease (LD) in many countries convey all relevant preventive measures to all members of the public ...
Beaujean, Desiree, van Velsen, Lex, van Gemert - Pijnen, Julia EWC, Maat, Angelique, van Steenbergen, Jim E, Crutzen, Rik   +5 more
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The 10th Tick and Tick-borne Pathogen Conference: reunited in progress

, 2022
The Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Conference is one of the biggest international scientific events in the field of ticks and is usually organized every 3 years.
Mihalca, Andrei D.
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Risk of acquiring tick bites in south-eastern Sweden

, 2002
The incidence and the temporal pattern of tick bites were studied in a population frequently out-of-doors in a tick endemic area in south-eastern Sweden between May 2000-March 2001.
Berglund, Johan, Stjernberg, Louise
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B Cell Responses in the Development of Mammalian Meat Allergy

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Studies of meat allergic patients have shown that eating meat poses a serious acute health risk that can induce severe cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and respiratory reactions.
Jessica L. Chandrasekhar, Kelly M. Cox, Loren D. Erickson, Loren D. Erickson   +3 more
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Decrease in tick bite consultations and stabilization of early Lyme borreliosis in the Netherlands in 2014 after 15 years of continuous increase

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Nationwide surveys have shown a threefold increase in general practitioner (GP) consultations for tick bites and early Lyme borreliosis from 1994 to 2009 in the Netherlands.
Agnetha Hofhuis, Sita Bennema, Margriet Harms, Arnold J. H. van Vliet, Willem Takken, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, Wilfrid van Pelt   +6 more
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A qualitative study to explore farmworkers’ knowledge, beliefs and preventive practices toward ticks and tick-borne diseases

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2019
Introduction: Farmworkers are considered a high-risk group for tick-borne diseases (TBDs). This qualitative study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the farmworkers’ experience, knowledge, health beliefs, information needs, and preventive ...
Masoumeh Ghane Kisomi, Li Ping Wong, Sun Tee Tay, Awang Bulgiba, Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam   +4 more
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Tick bite risk factors and prevention measures in an area with emerging Powassan virus disease

Public Health Challenges, 2023
Background In the United States (U.S.), Powassan virus is primarily transmitted to humans by the black‐legged tick (Ixodes scapularis). Rarely, infections can present as severe neuroinvasive disease.
Nicolette Wilson, Grace M. Vahey, Emily McDonald, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Lehman, Sandhya Clark, Kristine Lindell, Daniel M. Pastula, Stephen Perez, Heather Rhodes, Carolyn V. Gould, J. Erin Staples, Stacey W. Martin, Kim Cervantes   +13 more
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Probing an Ixodes ricinus salivary gland yeast surface display with tick-exposed human sera to identify novel candidates for an anti-tick vaccine

Scientific Reports, 2021
In Europe, Ixodes ricinus is the most important vector of human infectious diseases, most notably Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis virus. Multiple non-natural hosts of I. ricinus have shown to develop immunity after repeated tick bites.
Jos J. A. Trentelman, Julen Tomás-Cortázar, Sarah Knorr, Diego Barriales, Ondrej Hajdusek, Radek Sima, Jasmin I. Ersoz, Sukanya Narasimhan, Erol Fikrig, Ard M. Nijhof, Juan Anguita, Joppe W. Hovius   +11 more
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Ticks Tick Borne Dis [PDF]

Personal protection measures to prevent human tick encounters from resulting in bites are widely recommended as the first line of defense against health impacts associated with ticks.

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Description of human infestations by ticks in Panama and Costa Rica

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy, 2021
Tick bites in humans are associated with the transmission of pathogens, anaphylactic shock, paralysis, and secondary infections. In this work we described six cases of tick bites in patients from Panama and Costa Rica.
Sergio Bermúdez, Vicente Greco-Mastelari, Yamitzel Zaldívar, Michelle Hernández, Lillian Domínguez A., Victor M. Montenegro H., José M. Venzal   +6 more
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