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Are You Aware of Anaplasmosis?

Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne illness that is reported across the globe in areas such as North America, Europe, and China. Known infections in the United States have been on the rise ever since becoming a nationally notifiable disease to the CDC in 2000. Like bartonellosis and Lyme borreliosis, patients with this condition can present with [...]

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Suspected Insect and Arthropod Vectors for Bartonella species

Vector-borne diseases like bartonellosis and Lyme borreliosis require the transfer of pathogens from a reservoir to humans by a “competent” vector. A competent vector can acquire, carry, and pass on the living pathogen. The vector is generally an insect or arthropod that picks up the pathogen(s) while feeding from a reservoir species, such as deer […]

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Could it be Babesia?

Patients and physicians managing chronic illnesses are often unsure of what is causing the mysterious symptoms. They could be caused by autoimmune diseases or difficult-to-diagnose stealth infections. Flea-and tick-borne pathogens cause a variety of similar non-specific symptoms despite their distinct morphologies and pathogeneses. Furthermore, more than one pathogen can be transmitted during a single bite […]

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What are Bacillary Angiomatosis and Bacillary Peliosis?

In a previous post we discussed the relatively short history of scientific recognition of Bartonella species infections (bartonellosis). Chronic Bartonella infection in the United States was only recognized at the end of the 20th century as symptoms began to be seen more frequently in HIV patients. Furthermore, symptoms tended to be more serious in these […]

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How do researchers study the prevalence of Bartonella in people?

A question we are asked all the time is, “How likely is it that my symptoms are caused by Bartonella species?” This is a very difficult question to answer. The number of people who have been infected by Bartonella species in the general population is different than the number of people affected by particular symptoms. [...]

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New Educational Resource Concerning Lyme Borreliosis in Humans

  At Galaxy Diagnostics, one of our goals is to take new findings regarding flea and tick-borne diseases, like Lyme disease and bartonellosis, and develop educational resources for patients and the medical community. A couple of months ago, we helped break down the 2018 Tick-Borne Disease Working Group Report to Congress into a four-part series. […]

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