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Progress in Epidemiology of Emerging Tick-Borne Infections in China

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A total of 33 emerging tick-borne agents have been reported in the Chinese mainland from 1980 to 2015, including eight species of spotted fever group rickettsiae, seven species in the family Anaplasmataceae, six genospecies in the complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, 11 species of Babesia, and the severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus. Among them 15 emerging tick-borne agents have been identified to cause human disease, and their clinical characteristics were described and their geographic distributions mapped. The pathogenicity in humans of the other 18 tick-borne agents detected in ticks or animals is yet to be determined. Various factors have contributed to the emergence of emerging tick-borne diseases in China; for example, advances in and application of modern molecular techniques might facilitate the identification of emerging tick-borne agents and improve lab diagnosis of human cases. We anticipate that more emerging tick-borne agents will continue to be identified in ticks and animals and additional emerging tick-borne diseases will be discovered in humans.

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