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Active Forest Management Reduces Blacklegged Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Exposure Risk

EcoHealth, 2021
In the northeastern USA, active forest management can include timber harvests designed to meet silvicultural objectives (i.e., harvesting trees that meet certain maturity, height, age, or quality criteria). Timber harvesting is an important tool in enhancing regeneration and maintaining forest health.
Christine E, Conte, Jessica E, Leahy, Allison M, Gardner   +2 more
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Differential burdens of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) on sympatric rodent hosts

Journal of Vector Ecology, 2023
In the United States, there has been a steady increase in diagnosed cases of tick-borne diseases in people, most notably Lyme disease. The pathogen that causes Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis). Several small mammals are considered key reservoirs of this pathogen and are frequently-used hosts
Jessica E, Brown, Hannah S, Tiffin, Alexandra, Pagac, Karen C, Poh, Jesse R, Evans, Taylor M, Miller, Brian H, Herrin, Trey, Tomlinson, Cameron, Sutherland, Erika T, Machtinger   +9 more
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Tick tubes reduce blacklegged tick burdens on white‐footed mice in Pennsylvania, USA

Journal of Applied Entomology, 2020
AbstractLyme disease cases are increasing in the United States. The vector of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease is the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say) (Acari:Ixodidae). While there are several tick control options, many are expensive or involve large‐scale or ecological interventions such as landscape acaricide spraying or wildlife baiting.
Jessica E. Brown, Taylor M. Miller, Erika T. Machtinger   +2 more
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Density-Dependent Seasonal Dynamics of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Nymphs

Journal of Medical Entomology, 1997
The midsummer seasonal decline in abundance of unfed Ixodes scapularis Say nymphs on experimental plots in New Jersey was density-dependent. Nymph density was manipulated on 9 plots (10 by 10 m each) in Morristown. National Historical Park, NJ, in early June 1994.
S G, Vail, G, Smith
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Nocturnal Questing by Adult Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

The Journal of Parasitology, 1996
Quantitative tick drag samples were taken at various times during the day and night from February through April 1994 on St. Catherines Island or on Sapelo Island, Georgia. For each month, there was no statistical difference between the numbers of adult blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, collected during any hour of daylight or darkness on St ...
L A, Durden, G N, Vogel, J H, Oliver
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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF LARVAL BLACKLEGGED TICKS ON RODENT HOSTS

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2003
Because of differences among hosts in reservoir competence for tick-borne diseases, the distribution of larval blacklegged ticks on hosts might determine tick infection prevalence and disease risk to humans. We conducted a three-part study to determine the factors responsible for greater burdens of larval blacklegged ticks on white-footed mice than on ...
Margaret T, Shaw, Felicia, Keesing, Robert, McGrail, Richard S, Ostfeld   +3 more
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