Emerging tick-borne diseases

S Madison-Antenucci, LD Kramer… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
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 …

Lyme borreliosis

AC Steere, F Strle, GP Wormser, LT Hu… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease that predominantly occurs in temperate regions of
the northern hemisphere and is primarily caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi in …

Incidence of clinician-diagnosed Lyme disease, United States, 2005–2010

CA Nelson, S Saha, KJ Kugeler… - Emerging infectious …, 2015‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
National surveillance provides important information about Lyme disease (LD) but is subject
to underreporting and variations in practice. Information is limited about the national …

Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Carditis: JACC Review Topic of the Week

C Yeung, A Baranchuk - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019‏ - jacc.org
The incidence of Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection, is dramatically increasing in
North America. The diagnosis of Lyme carditis (LC), an early disseminated manifestation of …

Surveillance for Lyme disease in Canada: 2009–2015

S Gasmi, NH Ogden, LR Lindsay… - Canada …, 2017‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To summarize seven years of surveillance data for Lyme disease cases reported
in Canada from 2009 to 2015. Methods We describe the incidence over time, seasonal and …

Estimating the health‐related costs of 10 climate‐sensitive US events during 2012

VS Limaye, W Max, J Constible, K Knowlton - GeoHealth, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change threatens human health, but there remains a lack of evidence on the
economic toll of climate‐sensitive public health impacts. We characterize human mortality …

Manifestations of Lyme carditis

T Kostić, S Momčilović, ZD Perišić… - International journal of …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The first data of Lyme carditis, a relatively rare manifestation of Lyme disease, were
published in eighties of the last century. Clinical manifestations include syncope, light …

Risk factors for tick exposure in suburban settings in the Northeastern United States

P Mead, S Hook, S Niesobecki, J Ray, J Meek… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Prevention of tick-borne diseases requires an understanding of when and where exposure
to ticks is most likely. We used an epidemiologic approach to define these parameters for …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac tropism of Borrelia burgdorferi: an autopsy study of sudden cardiac death associated with Lyme carditis

A Muehlenbachs, BC Bollweg, TJ Schulz… - The American journal of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Fatal Lyme carditis caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi rarely is identified. Here,
we describe the pathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular findings of five case …

Laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

JA Branda, AC Steere - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
Lyme borreliosis is caused by a growing list of related, yet distinct, spirochetes with complex
biology and sophisticated immune evasion mechanisms. It may result in a range of clinical …