Rodriguez-Morales Alfonso J, Bonilla-Aldana D Katterine, Idarraga-Bedoya Samuel E, Garcia-Bustos Juan J, Cardona-Ospina Jaime A, Faccini-Martínez Álvaro A
Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, 660003, Colombia.
School of Medicine, Universidad Franz Tamayo/UNIFRANZ, Cochabamba, Cochabamba, 4780, Bolivia.
F1000Res. 2018 Dec 31;7:1988. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.17649.2. eCollection 2018.
Ticks are responsible for transmission of multiple bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases. Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) occur particularly in tropical and also subtropical areas. The frequency of these TBDs has been increasing and extending to new territories in a significant way, partly since ticks' populations are highly favored by prevailing factors such as change in land use patterns, and climate change. Therefore, in order to obtain accurate estimates of mortality, premature mortality, and disability associated about TBDs, more molecular and epidemiological studies in different regions of the world, including Latin America, are required. In the case of this region, there is still a limited number of published studies. In addition, there is recently the emergence and discovering of pathogens not reported previously in this region but present in other areas of the world. In this article we discuss some studies and implications about TBDs in Latin America, most of them, zoonotic and with evolving taxonomical issues.
蜱虫是多种细菌、寄生虫和病毒疾病传播的媒介。蜱传疾病（TBDs）尤其在热带和亚热带地区发生。这些蜱传疾病的发病率一直在显著上升并扩展到新的地区，部分原因是蜱虫种群受到土地利用模式变化和气候变化等主要因素的高度青睐。因此，为了准确估计与蜱传疾病相关的死亡率、过早死亡率和残疾情况，需要在世界不同地区，包括拉丁美洲，开展更多的分子和流行病学研究。就该地区而言，已发表的研究数量仍然有限。此外，最近出现并发现了此前在该地区未报告但在世界其他地区存在的病原体。在本文中，我们讨论了一些关于拉丁美洲蜱传疾病的研究及其影响，其中大多数是人畜共患病且存在不断演变的分类学问题。
