Publications by authors named "Jill R Kelly"
Background: In the United States (US), incidence of early age of onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC, diagnosed <50 years of age) has been increasing. Using a Bayesian analytic approach, we evaluated the association between county-level ecological factors and survival among individuals with EOCRC and identified hotspot and coldspot counties with unexplained low and high survival, respectively.
Methods: Principal component (PC) analysis was used to reduce dimensionality of 36 county-level social, behavioral, and preventive factors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
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- An emerging pathogen causes feverish illness and is spread by ixodid ticks, the same ticks that carry Lyme disease. It was identified in ticks in Japan in 1994 and first appeared in humans in 2011 in Russia, later spreading to North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Infection is commonly found in ticks across parts of the U.S. and Canada, with human seroprevalence rates between 1 to 3%, much lower than Lyme disease's rate of 15 to 20%. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, and nausea, with severe complications like relapsing fever and, in rare cases, meningoencephalitis.
- Diagnosis requires laboratory testing,
Background: Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever spirochete that relatively recently has been reported to infect humans. It causes an acute undifferentiated febrile illness that can include meningoencephalitis and relapsing fever. Like Borrelia burgdorferi, it is transmitted by Ixodes scapularis ticks in the northeastern United States and by Ixodes pacificus ticks in the western United States.
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