Tick-Borne Diseases Of Humans

Other Than

Lyme Disease Or "Lyme-like" Diseases

Tick-borne diseases are serious infections or conditions caused by a tick bite and affect humans and animals.

Links on these pages labeled "MEDLINE" are links to citations of medical and scientific articles from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLINE database.

Table of Contents

General information on tick-borne diseases of humans other than Lyme disease

Babesiosis (Babesia, Piroplasmosis, Nantucket Fever)
Bartonella (Cat Scratch Disease, CSD)
Brucellosis (Brucella, Neurobrucellosis, and Malta, Undulant, Rock, Cyprus, or Gibraltar fever)
Colorado Tick Fever (CTF, Mountain Tick Fever, Mountain Fever, American Mountain Fever)
Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia)
Heartwater Disease (Cowdriosis)
Q Fever (Query fever)
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF, Sao Paulo Fever, Spotted Fever, Tick Typhus)
Tick-Borne Rickettsia from the Spotted Fever Group - other than RMSF
Tick-Borne Rickettsia from the Typhus Group
Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE)
Tick-Borne Diseases in the Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Group - other than TBE Virus
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (Borrelia hermsii, B. turicata/turicatae, B. parkeri)
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever - other than that caused by B. hermsii, B. turicata/turicatae, B. parkeri
Tick Paralysis
Tularemia (Rabbit Fever, Francis' Disease, Deer-Fly Fever, O'Hara Disease)
West Nile Virus (West Nile Encephalitis) and Ticks

Resources for tick-borne diseases
Also see
For information on Lyme disease



Tick-Borne Diseases Of Humans Other Than Lyme Disease Or "Lyme-like" Diseases

General information on tick-borne diseases of humans other than Lyme disease

Lyme disease organizations on tick-borne diseases
Other organizations on tick-borne diseases
Federal and state government on tick-borne diseases
Universities on tick-borne diseases
Medical or scientific articles on tick-borne diseases
Media articles on tick-borne diseases
Articles on tick-borne diseases and animals

Lyme disease organizations on tick-borne diseases

LDRC: Other Tick-borne Diseases
Human Tick-Borne Diseases, Source: Lyme Disease Foundation
LDF: Tick-borne Diseases
LDIR: Human Tick-Borne Diseases, from LDF

Other organizations on tick-borne diseases

The Gaelic Wolf Scouting Pages -- Tick-Borne Illnesses
GORP - Tick-Borne Diseases In North America
GORP - Tick-Borne Diseases In North America - Diseases and Symptoms
Geographical distribution of arthropod-borne diseases and their principal vectors, WHO, 1989

Federal and state government on tick-borne diseases

Guide to Tick-Borne Diseases, Dutchess County Health Department, New York
LANL: Tick Associated Illnesses of North America-Research Assoc. of Medical, Biological Orgs
NIH: Tick-Borne Diseases: An Overview for Physicians, NIAID Fact Sheet, Jun 96

Universities on tick-borne diseases

Tick-Borne Diseases - Ohio State University
Ticks and Tick-Transmitted Diseases in Oklahoma
Tick-Borne Diseases Endemic in the US, Neal R. Chamberlain, Kirksville Coll. of Osteopathic Med.

Medical or scientific articles on tick-borne diseases

Finding Rickettsiae in All the Wrong Places, 13th ISCLD, Mar 2000
Those Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Human Ehrlichioses and Rocky, , 13th ISCLD, Mar 2000
Tick Diseases, Introduction, Jonathan Edlow, M.D., FACEP
The Epizootiology and Prevention and Control of Selected Tick-borne Diseases, 12th ICLD, Apr99
Lyme Disease and other Co-transmitted Tick-borne Agents, Balbina J. Plotkin, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health, Diseases [CDC EID 4(3):442-450, 1998]
Bug Vectors - Arthropods and Medicine, [Infect Med 13(7):543-544,5571996]
Prevalence of Tick-Borne Pathogens in I. scapularis in a Rural NJ County, EID 4(1):97-99, 1998

Media articles on tick-borne diseases

Ticks, Ticks--and Disease--Everywhere?, Medscape, CBS HealthWatch, 24 Apr 01
Letters, Tick-Borne Disease Revisited, Clinician News 3(9):3, Oct 1999
Improved Outcomes for Tick-Borne Pulmonary Disease, 15 Jul 99 (LD, RMSF, tularemia)
About Tick borne diseases: "Vital Signs: Mysterious Fevers", Discover Magazine, July 1999

Articles on tick-borne diseases and animals

Ticks transmit a number of diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State Univ. [slow?]
Tick Diseases: RMSF; Lyme disease; ehrlichiosis; babesiosis; etc - Part 1 of 2 [dogs]
Tick Diseases: RMSF; Lyme disease; ehrlichiosis; babesiosis; etc - Part 2 of 2 [dogs]



Resources for tick-borne diseases

NIH: MEDLINEplus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
CDC: Case Definitions for Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases
ARUP Laboratories
ARUP - Search

NIH: Taxonomy browser (root)
List of bacterial names with standing in nomenclature, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 590-592.
Generic names of bacteria
Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-date
Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book"

Emedicine Search Results for tick OR tick-borne OR ticks - 87 on 24 Aug 01
Google Search: allintitle:tick borne - 100 of 581 on 23 Aug 01
Google Search: tick borne - 100 of 36,800 on 23 Aug 01



This page can be found at:

Tick-Borne Diseases of Humans Other Than Lyme Disease Or "Lyme-like"Diseases http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/other-tbd-links.html

Also see:

Lyme Disease and Coinfections with other Tick-Borne Diseases http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/coinfections-links.html

Ticks and Lyme Disease - Pictures, Prevention, Removal, Control, Testing, Treatment http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/ticks-links.html

For information on Lyme disease see:

Lots Of Links On Lyme Disease http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/lyme-links.html

Comments or questions concerning this page should be directed to Art Doherty.

Last updated on 22 August 2001 by
Art Doherty
Lompoc, California
doherty@utech.net