Vi deltar på International Conference on Vector-borne Diseases 2014
- At May 23, 2014
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NorVect is arranging an international conference about vector-borne diseases at The Grand Hotel in Oslo, May 26th and May 27th 2014.
http://norvect.no/conference-2014/
About Vector-borne Diseases
Traditionally in medicine, a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself, but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another. This sense of “biological vector” is the primary one in epidemiology and in common speech. Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease is one of the most common among vector-borne diseases and the carriers are often ticks. However, as a tick can transmit up to 100 different infections, it shares common traits with other hosts transmitting some of the same infections – hence the name “vector-borne”. Examples of other vectors are lice, fleas, mice, mosquitos etc. They carry bacteria, viruses, multicellular microscopical parasites and other pathogens that may transmit a disease through feeding activity. In the following, a general outline on tick-borne diseases such as Lyme Borreliosis and other associated infections will be presented.
les mer her: http://norvect.no/vector-borne-diseases/