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A case of tick bite on the perianal region

Clinical Case Reports
Key Clinical Message Tickborne diseases have become the threats to the health of people worldwide, accounting for nearly 80% patients with vectorborne diseases in the United States.
Gang Huang, Lili Huang, Yuanfeng Xue, Xiaofang Duan, Bangtao Yao   +4 more
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Seroprevalence of spotted fever rickettsiosis and ehrlichiosis among food processing workers and their families in Latino communities in North Carolina. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
Workers in food processing industries are subject to many occupational health risks and disparities, but little is known about their risk of tickborne diseases.
Melissa K Cutshaw, Michael Sciaudone, Brenda Vasquez-Martinez, Colleen M McClean, Oksana Kharabora, Katherine Murray, Stephen Strohminger, Miriana Moreno Zivanovich, Rachel Gurnett, Emperatriz Morales Salgado, Ross M Boyce, Natalie M Bowman   +11 more
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Emerging Tickborne Viral Infections: What Wilderness Medicine Providers Need to Know [PDF]

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2020
Ticks are versatile vectors of infectious diseases and transmit a broad range of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Ticks harbor pathogens without infection and share pathogens with other ticks while feeding together on a host.
exaly   +3 more sources

Infection by Tickborne Bacterium Candidatus Midichloria Associated with First Trimester Pregnancy Loss, Tennessee, USA. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
A previously healthy 26-year-old woman in middle Tennessee, USA, experienced a first trimester pregnancy loss after multiple tick bites. Histopathology, 16S rRNA sequencing, and electron microscopy examination of the products of conception revealed an infection by a bacterium within the Candidatus Midichloria genus.
Newman J, Hughes C, Bloch KC, Deveaux KJ, Allen S, Truong TT, Najafian B, Moncayo AC, Tao L, Lieberman J, Correa H.   +10 more
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Characteristics of tickborne infections in the underexplored areas of the Trans-Baikal Territory

Acta Biomedica Scientifica
Background. Infections transmitted to humans by the bites of ixodid ticks remain an urgent public health problem. In this work we explored the natural foci of tickborne infections located in the valley of the Chikoy River, which is a part of the buffer ...
E. K. Lagunova, M. A. Khasnatinov, G. A. Danchinova   +2 more
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Metagenomic Nanopore Sequencing of Tickborne Pathogens, Mongolia [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We performed nanopore-based metagenomic screening on 885 ticks collected from 6 locations in Mongolia and divided the results into 68 samples: 23 individual samples and 45 pools of 2–12 tick samples each.
Koray Ergunay, Bazartseren Boldbaatar, Brian P. Bourke, Laura Caicedo-Quiroga, Cynthia L. Tucker, Andrew G. Letizia, Nora G. Cleary, Abigail G. Lilak, Guugandaa Nyamdavaa, Sharav Tumenjargal, Michael E. von Fricken, Yvonne-Marie Linton   +11 more
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Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis, Atlantic Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
In July 2021, a PCR-confirmed case of locally acquired Babesia microti infection was reported in Atlantic Canada. Clinical features were consistent with babesiosis and resolved after treatment. In a region where Lyme disease and anaplasmosis are endemic,
Ziyad O. Allehebi, Farhan M. Khan, Mark Robbins, Elizabeth Simms, Richard Xiang, Allam Shawwa, L. Robbin Lindsay, Antonia Dibernardo, Clarice d’Entremont, Alex Crowell, Jason J. LeBlanc, David J. Haldane   +11 more
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Transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis From an Organ Donor to a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient. [PDF]

Transpl Infect Dis
Transplant Infectious Disease, Volume 27, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
Gundelly P, Ransom E, Stewart Z, Ruch B, Jittirat A, Denny L, Kasten J, Taylor ML, Salzer JS, Basavaraju SV, Annambhotla P, McCormick DW, Gleaton AN, Karpathy SE, Singleton J, Ramos C, Paddock CD, Rothfeldt LK, Baker M, Villalba JA.   +19 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Imported Human Babesiosis, Singapore, 2018

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In 2018, Babesia microti infection was diagnosed for a 37-year-old man in Singapore who acquired the infection in the United States. This case highlights the recent rise of tickborne infections in the United States and the risk for their spread, because ...
Poh-Lian Lim, Jean-Marc Chavatte, Shawn Vasoo, Jonathan Yang   +3 more
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Human Borrelia miyamotoi Infection, Austria

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We report a human case of Borrelia miyamotoi infection diagnosed in Austria. Spirochetes were detected in Giemsa-stained blood smears. The presence of B.
Selma Tobudic, Heinz Burgmann, Gerold Stanek, Stefan Winkler, Anna-Margarita Schötta, Markus Obermüller, Mateusz Markowicz, Heimo Lagler   +7 more
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