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Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature
The black-legged tick is endemic to the midwestern, northeastern, western, south-eastern, and southern regions of the United States. There has been an increased burden of black-legged ticks in humans in recent years. COVID-19 pandemic has further heightened this burden. We thereby reviewed the liter...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34471586 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17526 |
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author | Sosa, Juan P Ferreira Caceres, Maria M Agadi, Kuchalambal Pandav, Krunal Mehendale, Meghana Mehta, Jayati M Go, Camille Celeste Matos, Wanessa Figueiredo Guntipalli, Prathima Belizaire, Marie-Pierre E |
author_facet | Sosa, Juan P Ferreira Caceres, Maria M Agadi, Kuchalambal Pandav, Krunal Mehendale, Meghana Mehta, Jayati M Go, Camille Celeste Matos, Wanessa Figueiredo Guntipalli, Prathima Belizaire, Marie-Pierre E |
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description | The black-legged tick is endemic to the midwestern, northeastern, western, south-eastern, and southern regions of the United States. There has been an increased burden of black-legged ticks in humans in recent years. COVID-19 pandemic has further heightened this burden. We thereby reviewed the literature to discuss the seasonality, infections, and clinical spectrum of diseases transmitted by the black-legged ticks. We also discuss the reported delay in the diagnosis of these diseases during the pandemic situation, the alpha-gal syndrome, the importance of prompt diagnosis, and early medical intervention with an aim to increase awareness of the black-legged tick-borne diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-84030002021-08-31 Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature Sosa, Juan P Ferreira Caceres, Maria M Agadi, Kuchalambal Pandav, Krunal Mehendale, Meghana Mehta, Jayati M Go, Camille Celeste Matos, Wanessa Figueiredo Guntipalli, Prathima Belizaire, Marie-Pierre E Cureus Infectious Disease The black-legged tick is endemic to the midwestern, northeastern, western, south-eastern, and southern regions of the United States. There has been an increased burden of black-legged ticks in humans in recent years. COVID-19 pandemic has further heightened this burden. We thereby reviewed the literature to discuss the seasonality, infections, and clinical spectrum of diseases transmitted by the black-legged ticks. We also discuss the reported delay in the diagnosis of these diseases during the pandemic situation, the alpha-gal syndrome, the importance of prompt diagnosis, and early medical intervention with an aim to increase awareness of the black-legged tick-borne diseases. Cureus 2021-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8403000/ /pubmed/34471586 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17526 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sosa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Infectious Disease Sosa, Juan P Ferreira Caceres, Maria M Agadi, Kuchalambal Pandav, Krunal Mehendale, Meghana Mehta, Jayati M Go, Camille Celeste Matos, Wanessa Figueiredo Guntipalli, Prathima Belizaire, Marie-Pierre E Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title | Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title_full | Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title_short | Diseases Transmitted by the Black-Legged Ticks in the United States: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature |
title_sort | diseases transmitted by the black-legged ticks in the united states: a comprehensive review of the literature |
topic | Infectious Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403000/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34471586 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17526 |
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