• 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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  • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier. It covers research onticks and tick-borne infectious...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease transmission is...
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  • diseases List of cutaneous conditions List of insect-borne diseases List of parasites (human) Mosquito-borne disease Robovirus Tibovirus Tick-borne disease...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease transmission is...
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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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    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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    Ixodidae (redirect from Ixodid tick)
    holocyclus. Other tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, Southern tick-associated rash...
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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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    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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  • Hard ticks on the other hand tend to stay attached for several days to weeks, feeding continuously. The ticks that transmit Lyme disease are hard ticks. Ticks...
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