Tick-borne diseases, which afflict humans and other animals, are caused by infectious agents transmitted by tick bites. They are caused by infection with...
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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral infectious disease involving the central nervous system. The disease most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis...
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Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the...
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portal Parasitology Ticks of domestic animals Tick-borne disease Arachnids in medicine Micrographs of the wasp laying eggs into a tick, and the hole by which...
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Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a positive-strand RNA virus associated with tick-borne encephalitis in the genus Flavivirus. TBEV is a member of...
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier. It covers research on ticks and tick-borne infectious...
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Powassan virus (redirect from Powassan virus disease)
white-footed mice. Based on the time interval for other tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, the time interval for transmission of...
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The Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (TBDA) was a US national not-for-profit charity that was dedicated to raising awareness, supporting initiatives and promoting...
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Tick paralysis is a type of paralysis caused by specific types of attached ticks. Unlike tick-borne diseases caused by infectious organisms, the illness...
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Relapsing fever (redirect from Tick-borne relapsing fever)
vector-borne disease caused by infection with certain bacteria in the genus Borrelia, which is transmitted through the bites of lice, soft-bodied ticks (genus...
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Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) is a tick-borne viral haemorrhagic fever endemic to South-western part of India. The disease is caused by a virus belonging...
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Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million...
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fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease transmission is...
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the ticks Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes tasmani. Queensland tick typhus is a tick-borne disease. Onset of the illness is variable; there is an incubation...
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever (redirect from Tick- borne typhus fever)
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial disease spread by ticks. It typically begins with a fever and headache, which is followed a few days...
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Babesiosis (redirect from Texas tick fever)
strain of babesiosis, so it often presents with other tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. After trypanosomes, Babesia is thought to be the second-most...
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Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). The disease is most common in Central and Eastern Europe,...
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Ixodes scapularis (redirect from Bear tick)
several diseases of animals, including humans (Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan virus disease, etc.) and is known as the deer tick owing...
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Anaplasmosis (category Tick-borne diseases)
Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne disease affecting ruminants, dogs, and horses, and is caused by Anaplasma bacteria. Anaplasmosis is an infectious but not...
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illness is a tick-borne disease carried by the lone star tick Amblyomma americanum. This tick was first proposed as a possible vector of disease in 1984,...
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confused with the bacterial tick-borne infection, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Colorado tick fever is probably the same disease that American pioneers referred...
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Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (category Tick-borne diseases)
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is a tick-borne, infectious disease caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular bacterium that...
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Spotted fever (category Tick-borne diseases)
of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin. They are all caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia. Typhus is a group of similar diseases also...
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fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease transmission is...
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densities as well as diseased population densities of ticks so that no single factor can determine likelihood of exposure to tick-borne disease. Overall climate...
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Babesia (redirect from Texas Fever (disease))
have since been identified. Babesia comprises more than 100 species of tick-borne parasites that infect erythrocytes (red blood cells) in many vertebrate...
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Dermacentor variabilis (redirect from Dog Tick)
known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several diseases in humans, including Rocky...
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Borrelia (category Lyme disease)
Several species cause Lyme disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks. Other species of Borrelia cause...
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Ehrlichiosis (canine) (category Dog diseases)
hemorrhagic fever, canine typhus, tracker dog disease, and tropical canine pancytopenia) is a tick-borne disease of dogs usually caused by the rickettsial...
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Arbovirus (redirect from Arthropod borne virus)
word (arthropod-borne virus). Tibovirus (tick-borne virus) is sometimes used to more specifically describe viruses transmitted by ticks, a superorder within...
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