The Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis: An Increasing Public Health Concern.
Rebecca J. Eisen,Lars Eisen +1 more
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In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is a vector of seven human pathogens, including those causing Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, Powassan virus disease, and ehrlichia muris eauclarensis.About:
This article is published in Trends in Parasitology.The article was published on 2018-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 206 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ixodes scapularis & Ixodes.read more
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The continued threat of emerging flaviviruses
TL;DR: The basic biology of these viruses, their life cycles, the diseases they cause and available therapeutic options are reviewed, and the global distribution of flaviviruses is discussed, with a focus on lesser-known species that have the potential to emerge more broadly in human populations.
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Range Expansion of Tick Disease Vectors in North America: Implications for Spread of Tick-Borne Disease
TL;DR: The geographic status of four representative tick species are discussed in relation to public health concerns, namely, the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, the Gulf Coast Tick, and the black-legged tick.
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Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases
Amr El-Sayed,Mohamed Kamel +1 more
TL;DR: The role of climate changes in the spread of infectious agents and their vectors is discussed and examples of the major emerging viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases are summarized.
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Infections: Complex Ecology, Agents, and Host Interactions
TL;DR: The potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of ticks and the infections they transmit; the emergence of novel tick-borne pathogens, increasing geographic range and incidence oftick-borne infections; and advances in the characterization of tick saliva mediated modulation of host defenses are examined.
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Tick and Tickborne Pathogen Surveillance as a Public Health Tool in the United States
TL;DR: The public health importance of tick surveillance is outlined, gaps in knowledge regarding the distributions and abundance of medically important ticks in the United States are identified, and key objectives for tick surveillance are described and methods appropriate for addressing those goals are described.
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Lyme disease-a tick-borne spirochetosis?
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TL;DR: A treponema-like spirochete was detected in and isolated from adult Ixodes dammini, the incriminated tick vector of Lyme disease, and it is suggested that the newly discovered spiroChete is involved in the etiology of Lyme Disease.
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Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila.
J. S. Dumler,Anthony F. Barbet,C. P.J. Bekker,G. A. Dasch,G. H. Palmer,Stuart C. Ray,Y. Rikihisa,F. R. Rurangirwa +7 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that all members of the tribes Ehrlichieae and Wolbachieae be transferred to the family Anaplasmataceae and that the tribe structure of the family Rickettsiaceae be eliminated.
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The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk
TL;DR: This study suggests that the preservation of vertebrate biodiversity and community composition can reduce the incidence of Lyme disease, and identifies important “dilution hosts” (e.g., squirrels), characterized by high tick burdens, low reservoir competence, and high population density, as well as “rescue hosts’’, which are capable of maintaining high disease risk when mouse density is low.
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Identification of a granulocytotropic Ehrlichia species as the etiologic agent of human disease
TL;DR: Six patients from northern Minnesota and Wisconsin with a febrile illness accompanied by granulocytic cytoplasmic morulae suggestive of ehrlichial infection were identified and were shown to be infected by an Ehrlichia species never previously reported to infect humans.
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Borrelia burgdorferi sp. nov.: Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease
TL;DR: A review of reports on the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of strains of the spirochete which causes Lyme disease revealed that these organisms are representative of a new species of Borrelia, which is proposed to be Bor Relia burgdorferi.