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Year 2000 - Volume 20, Number 1
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Borrelioses, agents and vectors: a review, 20(1):1-19
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ABSTRACT.- Soares C.O., lshikawa M.M., Fonseca A.H. & Yoshinari, N.H. 2000. [Borrelioses, agents and vectors: a review.] Borrelioses, agentes e vetores. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 20(1):1-19. Depto Epidemiologia e Saúde Pública, Instituto de Veterinária, Univ. Fed. Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Km 47, Seropédica, RJ 23851-970, Brazil.
Borrelioses are infectous diseases caused by spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia. They are born mainly through ticks at animals and/or human beings. In this review are shown and discussed five groups of diseases determined by borrelia, general characteristics of the spirochaetes, aspects related to transmission by arthropods, biological and pathological aspects of the diseases in domestic and wild animals, Lyme disease as an important zoonosis, the association of borrelia with other hematozoa agents, the diagnostic methods and the comparative epidemiologywith data obtained from Brazil and other countries. The borrelioses have pathological, clinical and epidemiological characteristics which vary according to physiographic regions due to the existence of different species, genospecies and strains of borrelia, of arthropod vectors, vector-agent relationship and of different ecocystems. |
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