ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2014
A seventeen-year epidemiological surveillance study of Borrelia burgdorferi infections in two provinces of northern Spain.
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- Global seroprevalence and sociodemographic characteristics ofBMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
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- Prevalence of Borrelia, Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Babesia in ticks collected from vegetation in eastern Poland.Experimental & applied acarology · 2023Article
- Genomic Profiling for Piroplasms in Feeding Ixodid Ticks in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Screening of Forestry Workers in Guadalajara Province (Spain) for Antibodies toInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- [Usefulness of serological studies for the early diagnosis of Lyme disease in Primary Health Care Centres].Atencion primaria · 2018Article
- Determination of Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi IgG in Adult Population Living in Trabzon.Balkan medical journal · 2017Article
- Pathogens vectored by the tick, Dermacentor reticulatus, in endemic regions and zones of expansion in Poland.Parasites & vectors · 2015Article
- Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in humans in a rural area of Paraná State, Brazil.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2015Article
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Abstract
This paper reports a 17-year seroepidemiological surveillance study of Borrelia burgdorferi infection, performed with the aim of improving our knowledge of the epidemiology of this pathogen. Serum samples (1,179) from patients (623, stratified with respect to age, sex, season, area of residence and occupation) bitten by ticks in two regions of northern Spain were IFA-tested for B. burgdorferi antibodies. Positive results were confirmed by western blotting. Antibodies specific for B. burgdorferi were found in 13.3% of the patients; 7.8% were IgM positive, 9.6% were IgG positive, and 4.33% were both IgM and IgG positive. Five species of ticks were identified in the seropositive patients: Dermacentor marginatus (41.17% of such patients) Dermacentor reticulatus (11.76%), Rhiphicephalus sanguineus (17.64%), Rhiphicephalus turanicus (5.88%) and Ixodes ricinus (23.52%). B. burgdorferi DNA was sought by PCR in ticks when available. One tick, a D. reticulatus male, was found carrying the pathogen. The seroprevalence found was similar to the previously demonstrated in similar studies in Spain and other European countries.
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