Tick hypersensitivity and human tick‐borne diseases
Ng YQ, Gupte TP, Krause PJ. Tick hypersensitivity and human tick‐borne diseases. Parasite Immunology 2021, 43: e12819. PMID: 33428244, DOI: 10.1111/pim.12819.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHypersensitivity reactionsImmune responseBlood mealTick-borne diseasesGeneralized hypersensitivity reactionHuman tick-borne diseasesHost immune responseLocal hypersensitivity reactionsLaboratory animal modelsItch responseCausative pathogenTick exposureSuch vaccinesTick salivary proteinsAnimal modelsAnti-tick vaccinesMost vector-borne diseasesTick salivaHuman investigationsDiseaseTick attachmentFuture preventionBlood coagulationHypersensitivity studiesVaccine