From the Columbia University
Medical Center
- Babesia are malaria-like protozoans that parasitize
and reproduce within mammalian red blood cells.
There are 4 strains of Babesia current tests only
check for one strain. read more
- Ehrlichiosis - are small, gram-negative bacteria,
round or ellipsoidal in shape read more
dozen spotted fever illnesses found in the
Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia read more
- Relapsing fever - as its name implies, is an
episodes of fever, often accompanied by fatigue,
malaise and other constitutional symptoms read
more
- Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, or
STARI - It is also sometimes referred to as Masters
disease, in honor of Edwin Masters, the Missouri
family physician who first reported these cases to
his state’s Department of Health read more
- Tularemia - is a rare but serious infection caused
by the small, rod-shaped, nonmotile bacterium
Francisella tularensis read more
- Bartonella - are intracellular parasites that
generally show preference for erythrocytes and
endothelial cells in humans read more
- Q fever - is a bacterial pathogen that historically
has been grouped with rickettsial organisms read
more
- Tick paralysis - results from exposure to a
neurotoxin released by tick salivary glands during a
blood meal; it is the only tick-borne disease not
caused by an infectious agent read more
- Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is caused by an
RNA virus known, simply, as “tick-borne
encephalitis virus,” or TBEV read more
- Colorado tick fever - is a febrile illness caused
by an RNA virus belonging to the genus Coltivirus
(short for Colorado Tick virus) read more
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