Problem
Tick-borne diseases
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Nature:
Ticks carry bacteria and other agents that cause disease. Ticks may be the primary (necessary) hosts of infective organisms which may cause illness in higher animals. Ticks are beginning to be suspected in many diseases where the pathways of transmittal seem fuzzy.
Incidence:
Lyme disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) and babesiosis are contracted by humans who have been bitten by ticks carrying a bacterium also carried by the white-footed mouse. The 3 diseases respond to different drugs: Lyme disease to antibiotics, HGE to only certain antibiotics, and babesiosis to anti-malarial drugs, such as quinine and one antibiotic only. The drugs induce partial recovery in a first step of stopping bacterial growth, but the patient's immune system must kill the them. Patients with weakened immune systems recover more slowly and may need more drugs.
Broader Problems:
Arboviral diseases Insect vectors of animal diseases Narrower Problems:
Q feverBabesiosisTularaemiaTheileriasesAnaplasmosisLyme diseaseSpotted feversTick paralysisRelapsing feverEast Coast feverCat scratch feverSweating sicknessEperythrozoonosisTexas cattle feverAfrican swine feverSpirochaetal diseasesTick-borne borreliosesTick-borne rickettsiosesTick-borne viral encephalitisHuman granulocytic ehrlichiosisBovine anaemia Subject(s):
Invertebrates → InsectsMedicine → Pathology
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST