Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases
Autor: | Elizabeth B. Kauffman, Susan Madison-Antenucci, Laura D. Kramer, Linda L. Gebhardt |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Ecology (disciplines) 030231 tropical medicine Prevalence Review Tick 03 medical and health sciences Ticks 0302 clinical medicine Borrelia mayonii Environmental health parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Tick-borne disease General Immunology and Microbiology biology Clinical Laboratory Techniques Transmission (medicine) Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Tick-Borne Diseases Ixodes |
Zdroj: | Clin Microbiol Rev |
ISSN: | 1098-6618 0893-8512 |
Popis: | Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick populations and to detect and treat infections caused by the pathogens that they transmit. This review covers tick-borne infectious diseases of nonrickettsial bacterial, parasitic, and viral origins. While tick surveillance and tracking inform our understanding of the importance of the spread and ecology of ticks and help identify areas of risk for disease transmission, the vectors are not the focus of this document. Here, we emphasize the most significant pathogens that infect humans as well as the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases that they cause. Although detection via molecular or immunological methods has improved, tick-borne diseases continue to remain underdiagnosed, making the scope of the problem difficult to assess. Our current understanding of the incidence of tick-borne diseases is discussed in this review. An awareness of the diseases that can be transmitted by ticks in specific locations is key to detection and selection of appropriate treatment. As tick-transmitted pathogens are discovered and emerge in new geographic regions, our ability to detect, describe, and understand the growing public health threat must also grow to meet the challenge. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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