As a consequence of global temperature rise, ticks (Ixodida) and tick-borne diseases are emerging. During tick attachment to human skin, the feeding cavity becomes site transmission for salivary compounds, which can exert immunosuppressive effects. Tick-borne pathogens including Borrelia burgdorferi may benefit from dampened immune activation at bite site. We therefore assessed local circulatin...

Human babesiosis co-infected with Lyme disease in a young patient is an important condition. Here, we describe a case of a 39-year-old male patient with concurrent babesiosis and Lyme disease. Co-infections of tick borne diseases are often difficult to diagnose and underreported, and resulting in significant morbidity and mortality to patients. While co-infections have been infrequently describ...

Ticks are important economic parasites that are involved in the transmission of disease pathogens in cattles around the world. The health and economic burden caused by tick borne infections has warranted better control measures. At present, control of tick and tick borne diseases is mainly achieved by the wide spread use of chemical acaricides like carbamates, pyrethroids, amidines, organophosp...

The importance of tick-borne diseases is increasing all over the world, including Turkey. Global warming, environmental and ecological changes and the existence of suitable habitats increase the impact of ticks and result in frequent emergence or re-emergence of tick-borne diseases (TBDs) with zoonotic characteristics. In Turkey, almost 19 TBDs have been reported in animals and men, involving f...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Prevention of tick borne diseases in forestry workers is essentially based on the use of appropriate clothing. The objective of this pragmatic, randomized, controlled trial was to assess the potential benefit of permethrin-treated working trousers for the prevention of tick infestation during forestry work. MATERIALS AND METHODS N=164 male forestry workers were equi...

The importance of Lyme borreliosis, a tick-borne disease caused by the bacterium Borrelia (B.) burgdorferi sensu lato, is constantly increasing. It is the most frequent arthropod-borne disease in the northern hemisphere today. Numerous studies about the prevalence of B. burgdorferi in ticks have been published. A review summarising 1,186 abstracts on epidemiological studies of the tick I. ricin...

The south of Western Siberia traditionally belongs to the regions with unfavorable epidemiological situation for tick-transmitted infections. In Novosibirsk and its suburbs, approximately 20 thousand people annually seek medical care after tick bites. purpose this work was determine human-attacking species composition in territory suburbs by identifying nucleotide sequence mitochondrial gene cy...

Many vector-borne pathogens consist of multiple strains that circulate in both the vertebrate host and the arthropod vector. Characterization of the community of pathogen strains in the arthropod vector is therefore important for understanding the epidemiology of mixed vector-borne infections. Borrelia afzelii and B. garinii are two species of tick-borne bacteria that cause Lyme disease in huma...

Chronic infectious diseases, including tick-borne infections such as Borrelia burgdorferi may have direct effects, promote other infections and create a weakened, sensitized and immunologically vulnerable state during fetal development and infancy leading to increased vulnerability for developing autism spectrum disorders. A dysfunctional synergism with other predisposing and contributing facto...

The authors discuss the evaluation of the economic impacts of endemic livestock diseases, and economic issues in control of these diseases. Particular attention is focused on helminths and on endemic vector-transmitted infections (particularly ticks and tick-borne diseases). Decisions relating to disease control have to be made by government and by the producer. Government requires information ...