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Bacterial tick-associated infections in Australia: current studies and future directions
- Source :
- Microbiology Australia. 39:200
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- CSIRO Publishing, 2018.
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Abstract
- It may seem perplexing that there is any uncertainty in Australia about the existence of zoonotic tick-associated infections1–3. Outside this country, particularly in the northern hemisphere, tick-borne diseases such as human granulocytic anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Boutonneuse fever, ehrlichiosis, Lyme borreliosis, and tick-borne encephalitis, have well documented aetiologies, epidemiology, diagnostic methods, and treatments. Why is Australia different and what research is being conducted to address this issue? This article briefly addresses these questions and explains how high-throughput metagenomic analysis has started to shed light on bacterial microbiomes in Australian ticks, providing new data on the presence and distribution of potentially zoonotic microbial taxa.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Diagnostic methods
biology
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis
Ecology
030231 tropical medicine
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Babesiosis
Tick
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Microbiology
Boutonneuse fever
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Geography
Epidemiology
Ehrlichiosis (canine)
medicine
Encephalitis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13244272
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Microbiology Australia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9bb3f30b779466c18cc4f94aa4114dfe
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/ma18063