U.S., Oct. 28 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07897825) titled 'FINtick - a Prospective Multicenter Study on Tick-borne Infections in Finland' on Sept. 10.
Brief Summary: Ticks in Finland can carry several microbes that may infect humans. The best known tick-borne diseases are Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). In recent years, scientists have also found other microbes in Finnish ticks, such as Anaplasma, Rickettsia, Neoehrlichia, Borrelia miyamotoi, and Babesia. Infections caused by these microbes are called emerging tick-borne diseases. Climate change may also increase the number of ticks and expand their range further north. This could lead to more tick-borne diseases in the ...