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Prevention of tick-borne diseases: challenge to recent medicine

ABSTRACT: Ticks represent important vectors and reservoirs of pathogens, causing a number of diseases in humans and animals, and significant damage to livestock every year. Modern research into protection against ticks and tick-borne diseases focuses mainly on the feeding stage, i.e. the period when...

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Autores principales: Hromníková, Dominika, Furka, Daniel, Furka, Samuel, Santana, Julio Ariel Dueñas, Ravingerová, Táňa, Klöcklerová, Vanda, Žitňan, Dušan
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8905283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11756-021-00966-9
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author Hromníková, Dominika
Furka, Daniel
Furka, Samuel
Santana, Julio Ariel Dueñas
Ravingerová, Táňa
Klöcklerová, Vanda
Žitňan, Dušan
author_facet Hromníková, Dominika
Furka, Daniel
Furka, Samuel
Santana, Julio Ariel Dueñas
Ravingerová, Táňa
Klöcklerová, Vanda
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description ABSTRACT: Ticks represent important vectors and reservoirs of pathogens, causing a number of diseases in humans and animals, and significant damage to livestock every year. Modern research into protection against ticks and tick-borne diseases focuses mainly on the feeding stage, i.e. the period when ticks take their blood meal from their hosts during which pathogens are transmitted. Physiological functions in ticks, such as food intake, saliva production, reproduction, development, and others are under control of neuropeptides and peptide hormones which may be involved in pathogen transmission that cause Lyme borreliosis or tick-borne encephalitis. According to current knowledge, ticks are not reservoirs or vectors for the spread of COVID-19 disease. The search for new vaccination methods to protect against ticks and their transmissible pathogens is a challenge for current science in view of global changes, including the increasing migration of the human population. HIGHLIGHTS: • Tick-borne diseases have an increasing incidence due to climate change and increased human migration • To date, there is no evidence of transmission of coronavirus COVID-19 by tick as a vector • To date, there are only a few modern, effective, and actively- used vaccines against ticks or tick-borne diseases • Neuropeptides and their receptors expressed in ticks may be potentially used for vaccine design
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spelling pubmed-89052832022-03-09 Prevention of tick-borne diseases: challenge to recent medicine Hromníková, Dominika Furka, Daniel Furka, Samuel Santana, Julio Ariel Dueñas Ravingerová, Táňa Klöcklerová, Vanda Žitňan, Dušan Biologia (Bratisl) Review ABSTRACT: Ticks represent important vectors and reservoirs of pathogens, causing a number of diseases in humans and animals, and significant damage to livestock every year. Modern research into protection against ticks and tick-borne diseases focuses mainly on the feeding stage, i.e. the period when ticks take their blood meal from their hosts during which pathogens are transmitted. Physiological functions in ticks, such as food intake, saliva production, reproduction, development, and others are under control of neuropeptides and peptide hormones which may be involved in pathogen transmission that cause Lyme borreliosis or tick-borne encephalitis. According to current knowledge, ticks are not reservoirs or vectors for the spread of COVID-19 disease. The search for new vaccination methods to protect against ticks and their transmissible pathogens is a challenge for current science in view of global changes, including the increasing migration of the human population. HIGHLIGHTS: • Tick-borne diseases have an increasing incidence due to climate change and increased human migration • To date, there is no evidence of transmission of coronavirus COVID-19 by tick as a vector • To date, there are only a few modern, effective, and actively- used vaccines against ticks or tick-borne diseases • Neuropeptides and their receptors expressed in ticks may be potentially used for vaccine design Springer International Publishing 2022-03-09 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8905283/ /pubmed/35283489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11756-021-00966-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Furka, Daniel
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Santana, Julio Ariel Dueñas
Ravingerová, Táňa
Klöcklerová, Vanda
Žitňan, Dušan
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