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tick-borne

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tick-borne (tkbôrn, -brn)
adj.
Carried or transmitted by ticks: a tick-borne disease.


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Written for health care specialists and infectious disease researchers, this volume provides a thorough review of the epidemiology, life cycle, pathogenecity, clinical manifestations, prevention and treatment of these tick-borne diseases.
A tick-borne infection usually causes no lasting harm if it's recognized and treated early.
Over the past two decades, cases of tick-borne zoonoses (like tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme borreliosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, babesiosis) have increased and now constitute a major health problem in many parts of Europe and North America.
 
 
 
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