A concise overview on tick-borne human infections in Europe: a focus on Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne Rickettsia spp.
Rita Abou Abdallah A , Didier Raoult B and Pierre-Edouard Fournier A C
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A UMR VITROME, Aix-Marseille University, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, IHU Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France
B UMR MEPHI, Aix-Marseille University IRD, APHM, IHU Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France
C Aix-Marseille University, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France. Tel: +33 (0) 4 13 73 24 01, Fax: +33 (0) 4 13 73 24 02, Email: pierre-edouard.fournier@univ-amu.fr
Microbiology Australia 39(4) 207-211 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA18065
Published: 2 November 2018
Abstract
Ticks are blood-feeding external parasites of mammals. Almost all ticks belong to one of two major families, the Ixodidae or hard ticks, and the Argasidae or soft ticks. Ticks are responsible of transmitting many diseases called ‘tick-borne diseases'. Borrelia and Rickettsia spp., are the most important tick-transmitted bacterial pathogens circulating in Europe. In this review we will focus on the two tick-borne diseases caused by these bacterial pathogens, their vector, epidemiology, clinical diagnosis and symptoms.
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