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State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (02-07-10):
19,492

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold: 194,920

* In the United States, requirements for reporting diseases are mandated by state laws or regulations, and the list of reportable diseases in each state differs.

 

Other Vector and Tickborne diseases found in Wisconsin: 

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)

  • Anaplasmosis

  • Babesia microti

  • Babesia odocoilei

  • Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato W97F51

  • Canine Ehrlichiosis

  • Deer Tick Virus (DTV)

  • Francisella tularensis- Tularemia

  • Morgellons

  • Powassan Encephalitis

  • Rickettsia Coxiella burnetii- Query Fever (Q Fever)

  • Rickettsia rickettsii- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen:

  • Argasidae Ornithodoros talaje

  • Ixodes scapularis (formerly Ixodes dammini)- Black-legged tick, Deer tick or Bear tick
       Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)
      
    Anaplasmosis
       Babesia microti
       Babesia odocoilei
       Borrelia
    burgdorferi- Lyme disease
      
    Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato W97F51
      
    Canine Ehrlichiosis
       Deer Tick Virus (DTV)

  • Ixodes Dermacentor variabilis- American Dog tick, Eastern Wood tick or Wood tick


Sources:

Immunoserologic evidence of coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi, Babesia microti, and human granulocytic Ehrlichia species in residents of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
P D Mitchell, K D Reed, and J M Hofkes
Microbiology Section, Marshfield Laboratories, WI 54449, USA. MitchelP@dgabby.mfldclin.edu
J Clin Microbiol. 1996 March; 34(3): 724–727.

A Focus of Deer Tick Virus Transmission in the Northcentral United States
Gregory D. Ebel, Ivo Foppa, Andrew Spielman, and Sam R. Telford, III
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases- CDC

Q fever in Wisconsin; serologic evidence of infection in cattle and in human beings and recovery of C. burneti from cattle.
KITZE LK
Am J Hyg 1957 May; 65(3):239-47.

Vegetational association of host-seeking adult blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), on dairy farms in northwestern Wisconsin.
Schmidtmann ET, Schlater JL, Maupin GO, et al. 
J Dairy Sci 1998 Mar; 81(3):718-21.

Infection and co-infection rates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum variants, Babesia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the rickettsial endosymbiont in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) from sites in Indiana, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Steiner FE, Pinger RR, Vann CN, et al. 
J Med Entomol 2008 Mar; 45(2):289-97.

Presence of Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) in southern Kettle Moraine State Forest, Wisconsin, and characterization of strain W97F51.
Caporale DA, Johnson CM, Millard BJ.
J Med Entomol 2005 May; 42(3):457-72.
 

http://lyme.org/resources/1980-cumulative.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047449.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5353a1.htm

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/htm/bc/tzns01.htm

http://www.lymeinfo.net/coinfections.html

 

 

                                
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