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Feeding of Ticks on Animals for Transmission and Xenodiagnosis in Lyme Disease Research
Published on: August 31, 2013
Tick-borne diseases in Spain
José A Oteo1, Sonia Santibáñez1, Aránzazu Portillo1
1Centro de Rickettsiosis y Enfermedades Transmitidas por Artrópodos Vectores (CRETAV); Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario San Pedro; Centro de Investigación Biomédica de La Rioja, Logroño (La Rioja), España.
Abstract:
Currently, tick-borne diseases are a threat to public health, as these arthropods are among the most effective infectious disease vectors in the industrialized world. In Spain there is a wide spectrum of tick-borne diseases with different forms of clinical presentation that sometimes pose a diagnostic challenge. This review analyzes the difficulties we have in daily clinical practice for the diagnosis of tick-borne diseases in our environment and details the microbiological tests available for their etiological diagnosis.
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