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Antra Bormane
Researcher at Latvian Biomedical Research and Study centre
Publications - 33
Citations - 2767
Antra Bormane is an academic researcher from Latvian Biomedical Research and Study centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ixodes ricinus & Tick. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 29 publications receiving 2465 citations. Previous affiliations of Antra Bormane include Public Health Agency of Canada.
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Driving forces for changes in geographical distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Europe
Jolyon M. Medlock,Kayleigh M. Hansford,Antra Bormane,Markéta Derdáková,Agustín Estrada-Peña,Jean Claude George,Irina Golovljova,Thomas G. T. Jaenson,Jens-Kjeld Jensen,Per Moestrup Jensen,Mária Kazimírová,José A. Oteo,Anna Papa,Kurt Pfister,Olivier Plantard,Sarah E. Randolph,Annapaola Rizzoli,Maria Margarida Santos-Silva,Hein Sprong,Laurence Vial,Guy Hendrickx,Herve Zeller,Wim Van Bortel +22 more
TL;DR: Improved tick surveillance with harmonized approaches for comparison of data enabling the follow-up of trends at EU level will improve the messages on risk related to tick-borne diseases to policy makers, other stake holders and to the general public.
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MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi
Gabriele Margos,Anne G. Gatewood,David M. Aanensen,Klára Hanincová,Darya Terekhova,Stephanie A. Vollmer,Muriel Cornet,Joseph Piesman,Michael Donaghy,Antra Bormane,Merrilee Hurn,Edward J. Feil,Durland Fish,Sherwood R. Casjens,Gary P. Wormser,Ira Schwartz,Klaus Kurtenbach +16 more
TL;DR: The study demonstrates that the concatenated sequences of the housekeeping genes of B. burgdorferi provide highly resolved phylogenetic signals and that the housekeeper genes evolve differently compared with the IGS locus and ospC.
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A new Borrelia species defined by multilocus sequence analysis of housekeeping genes.
Gabriele Margos,Stephanie A. Vollmer,Muriel Cornet,Martine Garnier,Volker Fingerle,Bettina Wilske,Antra Bormane,Liliana Vitorino,Margarida Collares-Pereira,Michel Drancourt,Klaus Kurtenbach +10 more
TL;DR: Analysis of Lyme borreliosis (LB) spirochetes, using a novel multilocus sequence analysis scheme, revealed that OspA serotype 4 strains (a rodent-associated ecotype) of Borrelia garinii were sufficiently genetically distinct from bird-associated B.Garinii strains to deserve species status.
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Climate change cannot explain the upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis in the Baltics.
Dana Šumilo,Loreta Asokliene,Antra Bormane,Veera Vasilenko,Irina Golovljova,Sarah E. Randolph +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that climate is just one of many different types of factors that have acted synergistically to increase both the abundance of infected ticks and the exposure of humans to these ticks.
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Socio-economic factors in the differential upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dana Šumilo,Antra Bormane,Loreta Asokliene,Veera Vasilenko,Irina Golovljova,Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc,Zdenek Hubálek,Sarah E. Randolph +7 more
TL;DR: Causal linkage between national socio‐economic conditions and epidemiology is strongly indicated by striking correlations across eight countries between the degree of upsurge of TBE and both poverty and household expenditure on food.