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<<In collaboration with the laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Salamanca, health offers to the health care system of Castilla y León device for the identification of species of ticks that are set in people and their possible infection by certain pathogens like Borrelia burgdoferi, rickettsia, ehliquias/anaplasmas or Francisella tularensis.
Certain species usually act as reservoirs (vectors) of agents of disease as the cause of Lyme disease.
It spreads to the joints, and nervous system and can affect other organs in its most advanced stage. It produces pictures of fever, anorexia, polyarthritis, myopathies and lymph nodes.
Some ticks also carry pathogens that cause Mediterranean exanthematous fever or Boutonneuse Fever, endemic in certain areas of Castilla y León. Begins suddenly with chills, high fever, joint pains and muscle, headache and photophobia. Skin lesions that may appear at the site of the tick bite or in other areas of the skin, such as the trunk and extremities can also produce.
It can also cause viral diseases such as encephalitis, Q fever, which causes fever, pneumonia, hepatitis and endocarditis, or hemolytic anemia especially severe in immunosuppressed and which may develop recurrent or chronic infection.>>
