Forestry workers are a group of a high risk of occupational exposure to tick-borne diseases.
The group of 51 healthy persons with a history of more than 3 years forestry working was …

Background. Lyme borreliosis is the most frequent tick-borne disease in Europe and North
America, and the number of registered cases is on the increase. Frequent presence in the …

Among the zoonotic agents causing occupational diseases, those transmitted by ticks are
very important, in particular the spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi which are the common …

Background: The presence of co-infections induced by tick-borne pathogens in humans is
an important epidemiological phenomenon. This issue has attracted growing attention of …

Background: The objective of the study was the evaluation of the infection of ticks with
pathogenic microorganisms at various workplaces (timber acquisition, forest growing, forest …

Introduction. Vector diseases are common in Europe, including Poland. Every year, 77,000
Europeans are infected with transmissive diseases as a result of contact with infected …

[Risk of occupational infections caused by Borrelia burgdorferi among forestry workers and
farmers]. - Abstract - Europe PMC Sign in | Create an account https://orcid.org Europe PMC …

Purpose There are more than 500,000 employees in Germany alone who are at risk of being
bitten by a tick at their workplace and thus also at risk of being infected with Borrelia …

Summary Background. In Poland each year many people experience tick bites. Performing
serological tests and looking for boreliosis' symptoms leads leads to over-diagnosing and …

The objective of the study was to evaluate the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis virus and
Borrelia burgdorferi infections in farmers of the Lublin province. The study involved sero …