A Model Infectious Disease Curriculum for Fourth Grade Students: Integrating Prevention and Education Concepts in the Classroom [PDF]
, 2006 Despite the significant need for prevention education and updated disease curricula in elementary schools, there is a deficit of model units, lesson plans, and activities at the fourth grade level.
Downie, Diane Loreli
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The Effect of Broad-Scale Climate and Microclimate Conditioins on Ixodes Scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Overwintering Survival and Distribution in Maine [PDF]
, 2020 Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in North America, and human cases have increased substantially over the past few decades. Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are the primary vector for Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of ...
Volk, Michelle
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Vector-Borne Disease Weekly Surveillance Report, July 27, 2018 [PDF]
, 2018 The Iowa Department of Public Health Vector-Borne Disease Weekly Surveillance Report summarizes cases of vector-borne disease cases in Iowa such as West Nile virus, Dengue and ...
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Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesIxodes pacificus (the western blacklegged tick) occurs in the far western United States (US), where it commonly bites humans. This tick was not considered a species of medical concern until it was implicated in the 1980s as a vector of Lyme disease spirochetes.
Lars Eisen +3 more
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Decoupling of Blacklegged Tick Abundance and Lyme Disease Incidence in Southern Maine, USA
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2019 AbstractLyme disease is caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson, Schmid, Hyde, Steigerwalt, and Brenner (Spirocheatales: Spirochaetaceae) which is transmitted through the bite of an infected blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis Say (Ixodida: Ixodidae).
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Seasonal Variation in Nymphal Blacklegged Tick Abundance in Southern New England Forests [PDF]
, 2007 Sarah Rodgers +2 more
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Vector-Borne Disease Weekly Surveillance Report, November 04, 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 The Iowa Department of Public Health Vector-Borne Disease Weekly Surveillance Report summarizes cases of vector-borne disease cases in Iowa such as West Nile virus, Dengue and ...
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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2016 Reducing exposure to ticks can help prevent Lyme disease and other tickborne diseases. Although it is currently recommended to dry clothes on high heat for one hour to kill ticks on clothing after spending time outdoors, this recommendation is based on a single published study of tick survival under various washing conditions and a predetermined one ...
Christina A, Nelson +7 more
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Tick Cell Culture Analysis of Growth Dynamics and Cellular Tropism of Rickettsia buchneri, an Endosymbiont of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis. [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Thorpe CJ +3 more
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