Tick paralysis is a type of paralysis caused by specific types of attached ticks. Unlike tick-borne diseases caused by infectious organisms, the illness...

Australian paralysis tick, is one of about 75 species in the Australian tick fauna and is considered the most medically important. It can cause paralysis by injecting...

this condition is Landry's ascending paralysis) Tick paralysis Ascending paralysis contrasts with descending paralysis, which occurs in conditions such as...

stage of A. persicus. Tick paralysis is included in avian spirochetosis and appears in the same fashion. The flaccid paralysis ascends throughout the...

causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. Dermacentor ticks may also induce tick paralysis by elaboration of a neurotoxin that induces rapidly progressive...

certain species of ticks. Symptoms typically ranges from fatigue, numbness in the legs, muscle aches, and, to in some cases, paralysis and other severe...

Australian paralysis tick, are also intrinsically venomous and can cause tick paralysis. Eggs can become infected with pathogens inside a female tick's ovaries...

polish, petroleum jelly or heat on the tick to try to remove it. In Australia, where the Australian paralysis tick is prevalent, the Australasian Society...

paralysis. Bell's palsy is often treated with corticosteroids. Lyme disease, an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria and spread by ticks...

Flavivirus that causes Powassan encephalitis. Dermacentor ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis. As of 2019, about 41 species are placed in the genus:...