Frequent Exposure to Many Hunting Dogs Significantly Increases Tick Exposure
| Autor: | Benjamin Scott, Kelsey Willardson, Reid Senesac, Christine A. Petersen, Ashlee Johannes, Angela J. Toepp, Mandy Larson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Adult Male genetic structures education 030231 tropical medicine Microbiology Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine TICK EXPOSURE Lyme disease Dogs Risk Factors Seroepidemiologic Studies Virology Environmental health Zoonoses medicine Seroprevalence Animals Humans Dog Diseases health care economics and organizations Aged Lyme Disease Tick Bites business.industry Original Articles Middle Aged medicine.disease bacterial infections and mycoses humanities United States Tick Infestations 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Increased risk Female business |
| Popis: | Certain professionals have more exposure to animals and therefore an increased risk of zoonoses. Professional hunting dog caretakers work with upwards of 50 dogs and are exposed to zoonoses through exposure to multiple potentially infectious canine secretions or excretions, as well as to the ticks that dogs carry. Dog caretakers reported having found embedded ticks on their bodies 5.83 times more than environment-only controls. Zoonotic Lyme disease, first in the United States for morbidity due to a vector-borne infection, has dramatically expanded its geographic range over the last two decades. This finding emphasizes the increased risk of tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease, based on dog exposure and in areas of disease emergence. |
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