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1. Introduction
2. Ticks
3. Tick vectors of lyme disease
4. Distribution of lyme disease vectors
5. lxodes ricinus / Ixodes persulcatus distribution
6. Ixodes scapularis
7. Ixodes scapularis life cycle
8. Collecting host-seeking ticks
9. Host seeking phenology (1)
10. Host seeking phenology (2)
11. Pathogen maintenance
12. Synchronous host seeking of nymphs
13. The nymphal stage
14. First description of lyme disease
15. The communities involved
16. Field study of ticks
17. The agent of lyme disease
18. Borrelia burgdorferi
19. Order: Spirochaetales, genus: Borrelia
20. Relapsing fever and lyme disease Borrelia
21. Geographic distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi
22. Borrelia burgdorferi pathogenic species
23. Genetic analysis (1)
24. Genetic analysis (2)
25. Genetic analysis (3)
26. Current distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi
27. Re-forestation of the northeast
28. Deer hunting was introduced
29. Reforestation, deer and lyme disease
30. Ixodes scapularis routes of expansion
31. Ixodes scapularis distribution in northeastern US
32. Source of infection for ticks
33. Other reservoir hosts
34. Nymphal infection prevalence
35. Tick infection prevalence data
36. Canines with antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi
37. Reported cases of lyme disease 1982-2007 (1)
38. Ixodes scapularis
39. Pathogen prevalence Ixodes scapularis nymphs
40. Ixodes scapularis feeds on humans
41. Emergence of human anaplasmosis
42. Current phylogeny and taxonomic classification
43. Anaplasma phagocytophilum
44. Anaplasma phagocytophilum prevalence
45. Anaplasmosis cases reported to CDC
46. Canines with antibody to A. phagocytophilum
47. Babesiosis emergence in Connecticut
48. Babesia microti
49. Phylogenetic analysis of Babesia microti
50. Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis
51. Emergence of powassan - deer tick virus
52. Powassan virus
53. Phylogeny of North American powassan virus
54. Transmission cycles
55. Fatal case of deer tick virus encephalitis
56. Research paper on relapsing fever spirochetes
57. Relapsing fever spirochetes
58. Spirochetes in SCID mouse blood
59. Prevalence of B. miyamotoi
60. Reported cases of lyme disease 1982-2007 (2)
61. Summary
62. Research team
63. Research sponsors

Topics Covered

• Expansion of the vector tick population North America due to environmental change
• Mutual expansion of the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease alongside tick expansion
• Agents of other human diseases are following
• Babesiosis
• Anaplasmosis
• Flaviviral encephalitis
• Other diseases

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• Vector-Borne Diseases

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• Microbiology

Therapeutic Areas:

• Infectious Diseases

Talk Citation

Fish, D. (2011, August 31). The emergence of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/ISPV3159.
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Publication History

• Published on August 31, 2011

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Durland Fish has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.