Lyme disease, which is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick vector. There are 2 reasons Lyme disease has not been common in Canada. First, although populations of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, are established throughout parts of southern British Columbia, this tick infrequently bites humans and relatively few ticks are i...

BACKGROUND Clinical recognition of tularemia is essential for prompt initiation of appropriate antibiotic treatment. Although fluoroquinolones have desirable attributes as a treatment option, limited data on efficacy in the US setting exist. METHODS To define the epidemiology of tularemia in Missouri, and to evaluate practices and outcomes of tularemia management in general, we conducted a de...

Vector-borne diseases are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in humans animals worldwide. Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is an important emerging vector-borne anthropozoonosis caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. It belongs to the genus Borrelia, phylum Spirochetae. B. burgdorferi gram-negative, flagellated spirochete having loosely coiled spiral morphology. disease distributed many parts...

Substantial exposure to Borrelia miyamotoi occurs through bites from Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Netherlands, which also transmit Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Direct evidence for B. miyamotoi infection in European populations is scarce. A flu-like illness with high fever, resembling human granulocytic anaplasmosis, has been attributed to B. miyamotoi infections...

Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE) are two emergent tick-borne diseases transmitted by the widely distributed European tick Ixodes ricinus. The life cycle of the vector and the number of hosts involved requires the development of complex models which consider different routes of pathogen transmission including those occurring between ticks that co-feed on the same host. Hence, we co...

Ixodes scapularis, commonly referred to as the deer tick, is the vector of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis; both illnesses are endemic to the upper Midwest. Avoidance of I scapularis bites is the primary preventative strategy for both infections. Antibiotic prophylaxis has been demonstrated to prevent Lyme disease, but similar studies have not investigated antibiotic prophylaxis for the preventio...

BACKGROUND The presence of co-infections induced by tick-borne pathogens in humans is an important epidemiological phenomenon. This issue has attracted growing attention of doctors and people working under conditions of an increased risk of being exposed to tick bites. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research group consisted of 93 individuals with current anti-immunoglobulin M/G (IgM/ IgG) Borrelia ...

BACKGROUND Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tickborne infection in Sweden and the seroprevalence of Borrelia immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies varies between 2% and 26%. The seroprevalence in young Swedish children is unknown and the relation to clinical data has not been previously studied. OBJECTIVE To determine the seroprevalence of Borrelia IgG antibodies in serum of young Swedish...