About this Research Topic
With global warming, and as humans live ever closer to animals, tick-borne infections have increased worldwide. Tick vectors are the carriers of many pathogens affecting humans and animals. The lack of awareness, and lack of the availability of sensitive testing for a wide range of bacterial and viral infections, has limited our ability to diagnose and subsequently our ability to treat these tick-borne infections. The disease burden from these infections, Borrelia, and others, significantly impacts medically and financially on those affected and infected.
We need better testing for tick-borne infections to track disease burden geographically and to provide an early diagnosis for these conditions. We need better awareness of these infections, both in patients and in medical communities. The clinical manifestations of these tick-borne diseases need better characterization, and we need publications in the medical literature to educate those who, knowingly or unknowingly, are evaluating such patients. The chronicity of these conditions needs to be better described in the medical literature and we need more publications on these conditions. We encourage research that addresses better diagnosis and treatment strategies for tick-borne diseases.
We invite submissions on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases, as the true burden of diseases is underestimated. We invite submissions on new diagnostic tests for these infections, as current testing is insensitive, and we invite submissions on descriptions of clinical cases, case studies, and case series of these infections to better understand the range of diseases that tick-borne infections present. We invite pathogenesis studies that better characterize interactions of these infections with their hosts.
Please note Frontiers in Microbiology does not consider Case Reports or Clinical Studies. Please submit these to the alternative sections available within Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Frontiers in Public Health, and Frontiers in Medicine.
This Research Topic has been developed and co-edited by Dr. Leona Gilbert, co-founder and CEO of Tezted
We need better testing for tick-borne infections to track disease burden geographically and to provide an early diagnosis for these conditions. We need better awareness of these infections, both in patients and in medical communities. The clinical manifestations of these tick-borne diseases need better characterization, and we need publications in the medical literature to educate those who, knowingly or unknowingly, are evaluating such patients. The chronicity of these conditions needs to be better described in the medical literature and we need more publications on these conditions. We encourage research that addresses better diagnosis and treatment strategies for tick-borne diseases.
We invite submissions on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases, as the true burden of diseases is underestimated. We invite submissions on new diagnostic tests for these infections, as current testing is insensitive, and we invite submissions on descriptions of clinical cases, case studies, and case series of these infections to better understand the range of diseases that tick-borne infections present. We invite pathogenesis studies that better characterize interactions of these infections with their hosts.
Please note Frontiers in Microbiology does not consider Case Reports or Clinical Studies. Please submit these to the alternative sections available within Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Frontiers in Public Health, and Frontiers in Medicine.
This Research Topic has been developed and co-edited by Dr. Leona Gilbert, co-founder and CEO of Tezted
Keywords: Tick diseases, Tick-borne diseases, Diagnosis, treatment, one health, lyme disease, diagnosis of tick-borne disease, treatment of tick-borne infections
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