Tick-borne diseases
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Tick-borne diseases (Ixodes ricinus) in Europe include:
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- causative agent: tick-borne encephalitis virus (flaviviruses);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus.
- Lyme disease
- causative agent: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (spirochetes);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus.
- Marseille fever
- causative agent: Rickettsia conori (rickettsia);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus.
- Q fever
- causative agent: Coxiella burnetii (rickettsia);
- vektor: Ixodes ricinus.
- TIBOLA (tick-borne lymphadenopathy)
- causative agent: Rickettsia slovaca (rickettsia);
- vector: Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Ixodes ricinus.
- Human granulocytic anaplasmosis
- causative agent: A. phagocytophilum (rickettsia);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus.
- Cat scratch disease
- causative agent: Bartonella henselae (bartonella);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus.
- Tularemia
- causative agent: Francisella tularensis (francisella);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor.
- Babesiosis
- causative agent: B. microti (parasites);
- vector: Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor, Rhipicephalus.
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- Ixodes ricinus (tick)
- Anthropozoonoses
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ KRBKOVÁ, L. Lymeská borrelióza : Medicína pro praxi [online] . - edition. 2007. 200-203 pp. vol. 5. Available from <http://www.medicinapropraxi.cz/pdfs/med/2007/05/03.pdf>.
