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SUBMITTER: Hersh MH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4062422 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hersh Michelle H MH Ostfeld Richard S RS McHenry Diana J DJ Tibbetts Michael M Brunner Jesse L JL Killilea Mary E ME LoGiudice Kathleen K Schmidt Kenneth A KA Keesing Felicia F
PloS one 20140618 6
Humans in the northeastern and midwestern United States are at increasing risk of acquiring tickborne diseases--not only Lyme disease, but also two emerging diseases, human granulocytic anaplasmosis and human babesiosis. Co-infection with two or more of these pathogens can increase the severity of health impacts. The risk of co-infection is intensified by the ecology of these three diseases because all three pathogens (Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti) are tra ...[more]