Lyme disease is transmitted through a bite from a specific type of tick. The animals that most often carry these insects are white-footed field mice, deer, raccoons, opossums, skunks, weasels, foxes, shrews, moles, chipmunks, squirrels and horses. The majority of these ticks have been found...
[Rickettsiosis after tick bite: A subtle clinic picture on many occasions, we must be vigilant]doi:10.1016/j.eimce.2017.01.026Maria Laura Monterde-lvarezClara Calbet-FerréNeus Rius-GordilloIsabel Pujol-BajadorFrederic Ballester-Bastardie
Rickettsia diseases are a group of tick-borne transmitted diseases, classified into 2 large groups: spotted fevers and typhus fevers. In addition, a new condition has been described recently, known as tick-borne lymphadenopathy. A retrospective series is presented of paediatric cases of rickettsia ...
Angus KennedyBMJ Publishing Group LtdJournal of Neurology Neurosurgery & PsychiatryAuce P., Rajakulendran S., Nesbitt A., Chinn R, et al. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia following African tick bite fever . J Neurol Neurosurg 2011; 82 :681
Serological testing identified IgG and IgM against the spotted fever group, consistent with a diagnosis of African tick bite fever.doi:10.1136/jnnp.2010.236216Auce PRajakulendran SNesbitt AChinn RKennedy AJournal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry...
Conclusions: It is important to emphasize that in the case of APMPPE it is necessary to exclude concomitant infections, especially ocular borreliosis, particularly in the case of a tick or any bug bite, even in cases when the patients do not remember the bug bite. In those circumstances the ...