Tick-borne disease
| Autor: | Steven C. Buckingham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Tick-borne disease
relapsing fever biology business.industry Rocky Mountain spotted fever bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology Tularemia Lyme disease Infectious disease (medical specialty) Ixodes scapularis parasitic diseases Immunology medicine Borrelia burgdorferi business |
| DOI: | 10.1017/cbo9781139855952.136 |
| Popis: | This chapter focuses on how ticks can transmit numerous bacterial, parasitic, and viral pathogens to humans, as well as how the secretions of some species can induce allergic reactions or cause paralysis. It provides a broad overview of tick-borne infections endemic to North America and discusses general principles regarding their epidemiology, therapy, and prevention. It looks at tick-borne infections that occur most often in the spring and summer, when ticks are most active, but are also reported in colder months. The chapter points out how patients are unaware of their recent tick exposure as tick bites are usually painless, ticks may attach in sites covered by hair or clothing, and ticks in their larval and nymphal stages are still capable of transmitting infection. It analyzes the geographic distributions of tick-borne infections that correspond to the distributions of their associated tick vectors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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