Trending ticks: using Google Trends data to understand tickborne disease prevention [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionTicks and pathogens they carry seriously impact human and animal health, with some diseases like Lyme and Alpha-gal syndrome posing risks. Searching for health information online can change people’s health and preventive behaviors, allowing ...
Cheng-Xian Yang +3 more
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The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 With the incidence of Lyme and other tickborne diseases on the rise in the US and globally, there is a critical need for data-driven tools that communicate the magnitude of this problem and help guide public health responses. We present the Johns Hopkins
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Rodent Host Abundance and Climate Variability as Predictors of Tickborne Disease Risk 1 Year in Advance [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 Using long-term data on incidences of Lyme disease and tickborne encephalitis, we showed that the dynamics of both diseases in central Europe are predictable from rodent host densities and climate indices.
Emil Tkadlec +2 more
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TickNET—A Collaborative Public Health Approach to Tickborne Disease Surveillance and Research [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 TickNET, a public health network, was created in 2007 to foster greater collaboration between state health departments, academic centers, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on surveillance and prevention of tickborne diseases.
Paul S. Mead +3 more
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Diagnostic tests for Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever: a widespread tickborne disease. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2019 Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tickborne disease that circulates in wild and domestic animal hosts, and causes severe and often fatal haemorrhagic fever in infected humans. Due to the lack of treatment options or vaccines, and a high fatality rate, CCHF virus (CCHFV) is considered a high-priority pathogen according to the WHO R&
Mazzola LT, Kelly-Cirino C.
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Identification of tickborne pathogens in cattle and sheep ticks from Kyrgyzstan using next-generation sequencing [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Various tickborne diseases and pathogens in livestock have been reported in Kyrgyzstan; however, comprehensive molecular analyses from ticks and their tickborne pathogen diversity in the region are lacking.
Ji Ye Seo +3 more
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Human Babesiosis Caused by Babesia venatorum, Russia, 2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesWe report a case of acute babesiosis in a splenectomized 63-year-old man in Siberia, Russia. We confirmed the causative agent, Babesia venatorum, by PCR.
Olga P. Zelya +4 more
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Evidence of Human Bourbon Virus Infections, North Carolina, USA [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesBourbon virus is a tickborne virus that can cause human disease. Cases have been reported in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, USA. We identified Bourbon virus–specific neutralizing antibodies in patients from North Carolina.
Diana L. Zychowski +4 more
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Relapsing Fever Infection Manifesting as Aseptic Meningitis, Texas, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Tickborne relapsing fever spirochetes are an overlooked cause of disease around the globe. We report a case of tickborne relapsing fever in a patient in Texas, USA, who had a single febrile episode and gastrointestinal and neurologic symptoms. Immunoblot
Lisa Ellis +3 more
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Ehrlichiosis mimicking acute leukemia
IDCases, 2022 Human monocytic ehrlichiosis is a tickborne disease with a spectrum of presentations ranging from asymptomatic, mild to fatal. Ehrlichiosis can transiently cause white blood cells abnormalities that mimic leukemia/lymphoma and cases have been, on rare ...
Ra’ed Jabr, Wissam El Atrouni
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