Sexual Transmission of Lyme Borreliosis? The Question That Calls for an Answer

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F21%3A00555303" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/21:00555303 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/6/2/87" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/6/2/87</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020087" target="_blank" >10.3390/tropicalmed6020087</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sexual Transmission of Lyme Borreliosis? The Question That Calls for an Answer

Original language description

Transmission of the causative agents of numerous infectious diseases might be potentially conducted by various routes if this is supported by the genetics of the pathogen. Various transmission modes occur in related pathogens, reflecting a complex process that is specific for each particular host-pathogen system that relies on and is affected by pathogen and host genetics and ecology, ensuring the epidemiological spread of the pathogen. The recent dramatic rise in diagnosed cases of Lyme borreliosis might be due to several factors: the shifting of the distributional range of tick vectors caused by climate change, dispersal of infected ticks due to host animal migration, recent urbanization, an increasing overlap of humans' habitat with wildlife reservoirs and the environment of tick vectors of Borrelia, improvements in disease diagnosis, or establishment of adequate surveillance. The involvement of other bloodsucking arthropod vectors and/or other routes of transmission (human-to-human) of the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, the spirochetes from the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, has been speculated to be contributing to increased disease burden. It does not matter how controversial the idea of vector-free spirochete transmission might seem in the beginning. As long as evidence of sexual transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi both between vertebrate hosts and between tick vectors exists, this question must be addressed. In order to confirm or refute the existence of this phenomenon, which could have important implications for Lyme borreliosis epidemiology, the need of extensive research is obvious and required.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30102 - Immunology

Project

<a href="/en/project/NV19-05-00191" target="_blank" >NV19-05-00191: Importance of non-spiral forms of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in the pathogenesis of Lyme borreliosis and post-Lyme disease syndrome</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

ISSN

2414-6366

e-ISSN

2414-6366

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

87

UT code for WoS article

000665376500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85108294164