ALLMedicine™ Tick-borne Diseases Center

Sep 19th, 2020 - Ticks can transmit numerous tick-borne pathogens and cause a huge economic loss to the livestock industry. Tick vaccines can contribute to the prevention of tick-borne diseases by inhibiting tick infestation or reproduction. Subolesin is an antige...

Sep 11th, 2020 - Ticks and tick-borne diseases are important issues worldwide because of their effects on animal and human health. The genus Ornithodoros, which is included in the family Argasidae, is typically associated with wild animals, including seabirds. In ...

Aug 31st, 2020 - The role of questing ticks in the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), an ecosystem with intensified human-wildlife-livestock interactions, remains poorly understood. We surveyed the diversity of ques...

Aug 16th, 2020 - Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are considered to be the most important vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals, and emerging and re-emerging tick-borne diseases (TBD) exert an enormous impact on them. Wild ungulates are hosts fo...

Aug 5th, 2020 - Peri-domestic areas constitute an important source of tick exposure and tick-borne diseases (TBD). Nonetheless, the association between distal TBD risk factors (i.e. cognitive-/affective-risk perceptions, knowledge of the effectiveness of personal...

Jan 9th, 2019 - Information on ticks and tickborne disease. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nov 13th, 2018 - Tick-Borne Diseases have rapidly become a serious and growing threat to public health in the United States. Despite many scientific unknowns, experts agree that the incidence and distribution of tick-borne diseases are increasing. Over the past 25...

Sep 19th, 2020 - Ticks can transmit numerous tick-borne pathogens and cause a huge economic loss to the livestock industry. Tick vaccines can contribute to the prevention of tick-borne diseases by inhibiting tick infestation or reproduction. Subolesin is an antige...

Sep 11th, 2020 - Ticks and tick-borne diseases are important issues worldwide because of their effects on animal and human health. The genus Ornithodoros, which is included in the family Argasidae, is typically associated with wild animals, including seabirds. In ...

Aug 31st, 2020 - The role of questing ticks in the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), an ecosystem with intensified human-wildlife-livestock interactions, remains poorly understood. We surveyed the diversity of ques...

Aug 16th, 2020 - Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are considered to be the most important vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals, and emerging and re-emerging tick-borne diseases (TBD) exert an enormous impact on them. Wild ungulates are hosts fo...

Aug 5th, 2020 - Peri-domestic areas constitute an important source of tick exposure and tick-borne diseases (TBD). Nonetheless, the association between distal TBD risk factors (i.e. cognitive-/affective-risk perceptions, knowledge of the effectiveness of personal...

Jun 4th, 2019 - Pennsylvania had more reported cases of tick-borne disease from 2004 to 2016 than any other state, but these diseases are becoming a national threat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 73,000 cases reported in.

Jan 9th, 2019 - Information on ticks and tickborne disease. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nov 13th, 2018 - Tick-Borne Diseases have rapidly become a serious and growing threat to public health in the United States. Despite many scientific unknowns, experts agree that the incidence and distribution of tick-borne diseases are increasing. Over the past 25...

May 2nd, 2018 - Tick-borne diseases are increasing in prevalence, likely due to climate change in combination with human movement into tick habitats. 1-3 The Ixodes genus of hard ticks is a common vector for the transmission of pathogenic viruses, bacteria, parasi.

Apr 9th, 2018 - Powassan Virus Powassan virus is a flavivirus that causes encephalitis. It is transmitted by Ixodes cookei (Powassan virus, lineage I) in the Great Lakes region and by I scapularis (Powassan virus, lineage II, or deer tick virus) in the northeaste.