Touching base with some Mediterranean diseases of interest from paradigmatic cases at the “Magna Graecia” university unit of infectious diseases: a didascalic …

FCP Lionello, S Rotundo, G Bruno, G Marino… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Among infectious diseases, zoonoses are increasing in importance worldwide, especially in
the Mediterranean region. We report herein some clinical cases from a third-level hospital in …

Tick-Borne Bacterial Diseases in Europe: Threats to public health

E Pustijanac, M Buršić, G Millotti, P Paliaga… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background Tick-borne diseases, caused by bacterial pathogens, pose a growing threat to
public health in Europe. This paper provides an overview of the historical context of the …

Aseptic Meningitis Linked to Borrelia afzelii Seroconversion in Northeastern Greece: An Emerging Infectious Disease Contested in the Region

D Kouroupis, M Terzaki, N Moscha, A Sarvani… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Borreliosis (Lyme disease) is a zoonosis, mediated to humans and small mammals through
specific vectors (ticks), with increasing global incidence. It is associated with a variety of …

What a Tick Can Tell a Doctor: Using the Human-Biting Tick in the Clinical Management of Tick-Borne Disease

SM Rich, EL Siegel, G Xu - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
With expanding concern about ticks, there is a general sense of uncertainty about the
diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne diseases. The diagnosis process is often based on …

[HTML][HTML] New Epitopes for the Serodiagnosis of Human Borreliosis

MET Alcón-Chino, VLN Bonoldi, RMR Pereira… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Lyme disease, a zoonotic infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is
transmitted to humans through the bites of infected ticks. Its diagnosis primarily relies on …

The burden of infectious diseases throughout and after the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020–2023) and Russo‐Ukrainian war migration

P Rzymski, D Zarębska‐Michaluk… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how the infectious disease burden was affected throughout the COVID‐19
pandemic is pivotal to identifying potential hot spots and guiding future mitigation measures …

Aetiologies of bacterial tick-borne febrile illnesses in humans in Africa: diagnostic limitations and the need for improvement

A Adamu, F Reyer, N Lawal, AJ Hassan… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tick-borne febrile illnesses caused by pathogens like Anaplasma spp., Bartonella spp.,
Borrelia spp., Ehrlichia spp., Coxiella burnetii, Francisella tularensis, and Rickettsia spp., are …

Production, purification, and quality assessment of borrelial proteins CspZ from Borrelia burgdorferi and FhbA from Borrelia hermsii

M Guérin, M Vandevenne, A Brans, A Matagne… - Applied Microbiology …, 2024 - Springer
Borrelia, spirochetes transmitted by ticks, are the etiological agents of numerous
multisystemic diseases, such as Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne relapsing fever …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in the serum proteome profile of patients with neuroborreliosis, foresters, and patients treated according to ILADS method

A Gęgotek, E Skrzydlewska, M Groth, P Czupryna… - Microbial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim of study was to evaluate the changes in proteomic profile of human
serum induced by the development of tick-borne neuroborreliosis (NB), before/after therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Development, Optimization, and Validation of a Quantitative PCR Assay for Borrelia burgdorferi Detection in Tick, Wildlife, and Human Samples

J Lewis, VK Lloyd, GA Robichaud - Pathogens, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tick-borne pathogens are growing in importance for human and veterinary research
worldwide. We developed, optimized, and validated a reliable quantitative PCR (qPCR; real …