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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2020

Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases.

Susan Madison-Antenucci, Laura D Kramer, Linda L Gebhardt, Elizabeth Kauffman

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 306 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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306citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

306 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Susan Madison-Antenucci *Parasitology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA s.antenucci@health.ny.gov.
Laura D Kramer *Arbovirus Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
Linda L Gebhardt *Tick-Borne Bacteria Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
Elizabeth KauffmanArbovirus Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick populations and to detect and treat infections caused by the pathogens that they transmit. This review covers tick-borne infectious diseases of nonrickettsial bacterial, parasitic, and viral origins. While tick surveillance and tracking inform our understanding of the importance of the spread and ecology of ticks and help identify areas of risk for disease transmission, the vectors are not the focus of this document. Here, we emphasize the most significant pathogens that infect humans as well as the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases that they cause. Although detection via molecular or immunological methods has improved, tick-borne diseases continue to remain underdiagnosed, making the scope of the problem difficult to assess. Our current understanding of the incidence of tick-borne diseases is discussed in this review. An awareness of the diseases that can be transmitted by ticks in specific locations is key to detection and selection of appropriate treatment. As tick-transmitted pathogens are discovered and emerge in new geographic regions, our ability to detect, describe, and understand the growing public health threat must also grow to meet the challenge.

Indexed as

AnimalsClinical Laboratory TechniquesHumansTick-Borne DiseasesTicksAmblyommaAnaplasma phagocytophilumBabesiaBabesia microtibabesiosisblood-borne parasitesBorreliaBorrelia burgdorferiBorrelia mayoniiBorrelia miyamotoiCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV)deer tick virus (DTV)Ehrlichia chaffeensisEhrlichia ewingiiemerging diseaseIxodesLymePowassan virus (POWV)tick bornetick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV)

Identifiers

PMID31896541
PMCPMC6941843

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