Lyme Disease and 4 Emerging Tick-Borne Illnesses -- a presentation

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Lyme Disease and 4 Emerging Tick-Borne Illnesses

Herbert S. Diamond, MD  |  July 21, 2015

 

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Ticks can carry and transmit a wide array of pathogens that can cause diseases in humans, including bacteria, spirochetes, rickettsiae, protozoa, viruses, nematodes, and toxins.^[1] Tick-borne diseases can be found throughout the world^[2] and, in recent years, several new ones have emerged (eg, Powassan disease,^[3] Borrelia miyamotoi infection,^[4] Heartland virus disease,^[5]Bourbon virus disease,^[6,7] 364D rickettsiosis^[8]).

In the United States, tick-borne diseases include the following^[8]:

• Anaplasmosis
• Babesiosis
• Borrelia miyamotoi infection*
• Bourbon virus disease*
• Colorado tick fever
• Erlichiosis
• Heartland virus (HRTV) disease*
• Lyme disease (LD)*
• Powassan (POW) disease*
• Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
• Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI)
• Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF)
• Tularemia
• 364D rickettsiosis

* Discussed in this slideshow.

Images courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Steven Glenn, Laboratory & Consultation Division (top left); CDC (bottom left); Dreamstime/Svetlana67 (tick on leaf); and Sam Shlomo Spaeth (sidebar).