Deer Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Germs
04/03/2014 13:06
Deer Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Germs.
People who go outdoors in several regions of the United States may have something else to sweat bullets about. Scientists publicize that there's another troublesome microbe hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disease bacterium. There are indications that the micro-organism infects a few thousand Americans a year, potentially causing flu-like symptoms such as fever. In one newly reported case, a chambermaid with existing medical problems appeared to have brain tumescence and dementia caused by an infection.
It is not clear, however, how serious of a threat may be posed by the germ. For the moment, Lyme blight appears to be much more prevalent. And four other germs that affect humans sneak in deer ticks. Still, scientists say the germ is cause for concern.
And "This would not be commonly picked up by any of the fashionable tests for Lyme disease," said Victor Berardi, co-author of one of two reports about the basis in the Jan 17, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The bacterium in issue is Borrelia miyamotoi and is found on deer ticks (also known as blacklegged ticks) in parts of the power where Lyme disease is prevalent.
In 2011, Russian researchers reported that ancestors there were infected by the bacterium, and the new reports have found that it has infected people in the United States as well. "We've known about this bacterium for a desire time - at least 10 years," said Sam Telford III, a professor of catching disease at Tufts University in Medford, Mass, who co-authored the narrative with Berardi.
And "It's been under our nose all this time, and a lot of us just ignored it until there was this case report". For the most part, Lyme disorder infections occur in northeastern states, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and northern California. The germs are landholding by ticks that bite the skin and remain there for a day or more.
In the US case, an 80-year-old moll who lived on a farm in New Jersey was infected by the Borrelia miyamotoi germ. She suffered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma (which disrupts the invulnerable system) and developed what appeared to be signs of dementia. She recovered after taking penicillin, and scientists later confirmed that she had been infected with the bacterium and may have developed protrusion in the knowledge and brain lining as a result.
Researchers warned that the seed could be responsible for apparent cases of dementia in older people, especially those who suffer from conditions such as AIDS, which ease up the immune system. The germ also appears to cause fever, headache, chills and sweats, amongst other symptoms. So how common might infection with the germ be? Another new report in the minutes found signs of B miyamotoi infection in blood tests taken from people in New York and New England between 1990 and 2010.
They were treated with the antibiotics doxycycline and amoxicillin, which are tuppence and unfit to have serious side effects, said lead author Dr Peter Krause, a older research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn. He estimates that 4000 to 5000 cases of the virus may appear in the United States each year, compared with 30000 of Lyme disease. There is no probe for the germ yet, but researchers are working on one ointment. It should fetch about $100, said Berardi, who also is an associate director of laboratory science at Imugen, a Norwood, Mass, party that develops medical tests.
People who go outdoors in several regions of the United States may have something else to sweat bullets about. Scientists publicize that there's another troublesome microbe hiding in the deer tick that already harbors the Lyme disease bacterium. There are indications that the micro-organism infects a few thousand Americans a year, potentially causing flu-like symptoms such as fever. In one newly reported case, a chambermaid with existing medical problems appeared to have brain tumescence and dementia caused by an infection.
It is not clear, however, how serious of a threat may be posed by the germ. For the moment, Lyme blight appears to be much more prevalent. And four other germs that affect humans sneak in deer ticks. Still, scientists say the germ is cause for concern.
And "This would not be commonly picked up by any of the fashionable tests for Lyme disease," said Victor Berardi, co-author of one of two reports about the basis in the Jan 17, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The bacterium in issue is Borrelia miyamotoi and is found on deer ticks (also known as blacklegged ticks) in parts of the power where Lyme disease is prevalent.
In 2011, Russian researchers reported that ancestors there were infected by the bacterium, and the new reports have found that it has infected people in the United States as well. "We've known about this bacterium for a desire time - at least 10 years," said Sam Telford III, a professor of catching disease at Tufts University in Medford, Mass, who co-authored the narrative with Berardi.
And "It's been under our nose all this time, and a lot of us just ignored it until there was this case report". For the most part, Lyme disorder infections occur in northeastern states, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and northern California. The germs are landholding by ticks that bite the skin and remain there for a day or more.
In the US case, an 80-year-old moll who lived on a farm in New Jersey was infected by the Borrelia miyamotoi germ. She suffered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma (which disrupts the invulnerable system) and developed what appeared to be signs of dementia. She recovered after taking penicillin, and scientists later confirmed that she had been infected with the bacterium and may have developed protrusion in the knowledge and brain lining as a result.
Researchers warned that the seed could be responsible for apparent cases of dementia in older people, especially those who suffer from conditions such as AIDS, which ease up the immune system. The germ also appears to cause fever, headache, chills and sweats, amongst other symptoms. So how common might infection with the germ be? Another new report in the minutes found signs of B miyamotoi infection in blood tests taken from people in New York and New England between 1990 and 2010.
They were treated with the antibiotics doxycycline and amoxicillin, which are tuppence and unfit to have serious side effects, said lead author Dr Peter Krause, a older research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn. He estimates that 4000 to 5000 cases of the virus may appear in the United States each year, compared with 30000 of Lyme disease. There is no probe for the germ yet, but researchers are working on one ointment. It should fetch about $100, said Berardi, who also is an associate director of laboratory science at Imugen, a Norwood, Mass, party that develops medical tests.