Emerging tick borne agents in China
LIU Wei
Abstract：Tick-borne agents continue to threaten human health globally. In China, the diversity and geographical distribution of ticks have associated with high incidence of tick borne infectious diseases. However, their non-specific clinical manifestations have presented a major diagnostic challenge, since most physicians do not recognize the disease. Advances in and application of modern molecular techniques have facilitated the identification of emerging tick-borne pathogens and improved laboratory diagnosis of human infections as well as our knowledge on the tick borne infectious disease. This paper reviews the recent and prevalent emerging tick-borne pathogens in China, including Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato,Anaplasma species,Ehrlichia species, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome novel bunyavirus, spotted fever group rickettsiae and Babesia species. It also provides their distribution in ticks, animal host and describes the clinical characteristics in patients.
Keywords：emerging infectious diseasetick-borne diseaseChina
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 11-14 )