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Antibodies to Enteroviruses in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Acute Flaccid Myelitis. [PDF]

, 2019
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has caused motor paralysis in >560 children in the United States since 2014. The temporal association of enterovirus (EV) outbreaks with increases in AFM cases and reports of fever, respiratory, or gastrointestinal illness
Briese, Thomas, Burns, Jane C, Caciula, Adrian, Garcia, Joel A, Hetzler, Kimbell L, Jain, Komal, Konopka-Anstadt, Jennifer L, Lipkin, W Ian, Marine, Rachel L, Mishra, Nischay, Ng, James, Ng, Terry Fei Fan, Nix, W Allan, Oberste, M Steven, Price, Adam, Routh, Janell A, Thakkar, Riddhi, Thakkar, Roshni, Thakur, Kiran T, Tokarz, Rafal   +19 more
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The first case of anal myiasis caused by chrysomya albiceps (wiedemann, 1819) in a dog infested with rhiphicephalus sanguineus (latreille, 1806) ticks suspected to cause paralysis in turkey [PDF]

Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
A four-year-old Kangal dog with hundreds of ixodid ticks in the head and neck regions and a large number of myiasis larvae in the anal region were brought to Selcuk University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine.
Onur CEYLAN, Bilal DİK, Ceylan İLHAN, Merve İDER, Erdem GÜLERSOY   +4 more
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Tick paralysis in spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) in North Queensland, Australia: impact of a ground-dwelling ectoparasite finding an arboreal host.

PLoS ONE, 2013
When a parasite finds a new wildlife host, impacts can be significant. In the late 1980s populations of Spectacled Flying-foxes (SFF) (Pteropus conspicillatus), a species confined, in Australia, to north Queensland became infected by paralysis tick ...
Petra G Buettner, David A Westcott, Jennefer Maclean, Lawrence Brown, Adam McKeown, Ashleigh Johnson, Karen Wilson, David Blair, Jonathan Luly, Lee Skerratt, Reinhold Muller, Richard Speare   +11 more
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Tick paralysis cases in Argentina

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2012
Tick paralysis (TP) occurs worldwide and is caused by a neurotoxin secreted by engorged female ticks that affects the peripheral and central nervous system.
Carlos Remondegui
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Conjunctival Attachment of a Live Paralysis Tick, Ixodes holocyclus, in a Child: A Case Report

Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2015
We describe a rare clinical finding of conjunctival tick attachment in a child. A 10-year-old boy presented to the clinic with right-eye itch. He was found to have a live tick firmly attached to his right temporal conjunctiva.
Joanne M.Y. Teong, Paul A. Adler, Stephen L. Doggett, Dariush Daneshvar, Melissa K. Shields   +4 more
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Review Article : Neuromuscular causes of weakness in critically ill patients [PDF]

, 2017
Multiple predisposing factors are responsible for the development of neuromuscular weakness in a critically ill patient. Thorough history and physical examination is paramount and should not be omitted despite that the majority of patients are ...
Govindarajan, Raghav, Katyal, Nakul
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Investigation of the efficacy of fluralaner spot-on (Bravecto®) against infestations of Ixodes holocyclus on cats

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Infestation of cats with the Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus continues to be a threat because of the paralysis that can result from attachment of just a single tick.
Petr Fisara, Frank Guerino, Fangshi Sun
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Zika virus: New clinical syndromes and its emergence in the western hemisphere [PDF]

, 2016
Zika virus (ZIKV) had remained a relatively obscure flavivirus until a recent series of outbreaks accompanied by unexpectedly severe clinical complications brought this virus into the spotlight as causing an infection of global public health concern.
Brazilian Medical Genetics Society–Zika Embryopathy Task Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Cross Consortium, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Helen M. Lazear, Michael S. Diamond, T. C. Pierson   +9 more
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Efficacy of combination products containing sarolaner, moxidectin and pyrantel (Simparica Trio™) or afoxolaner and milbemycin (NexGard Spectra®) against induced infestations of Ixodes holocyclus in dogs

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background The Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, causes tick paralysis in dogs and cats in the eastern coastal regions of Australia. Prevention is the best option to protect dogs against this potentially fatal disease and sarolaner provides ...
Raj Packianathan, Andrew Hodge, Natalie Bruellke, Chrissie Jackson, Steven Maeder   +4 more
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Case of ehrlichiosis induced Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a 71 year-old female

IDCases, 2021
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a rare autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that causes an ascending paralysis and flaccid weakness. Tick paralysis is a mimic of GBS as symptoms include generalized weakness and paralysis.
Joseph R. Malhis, Aysam Mahmoud, Alex Belote, Andrew Ebers   +3 more
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