Efficacy of low-dose fipronil bait against blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) larvae feeding on white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) under simulated field conditions. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2021 Background Lyme disease, caused primarily by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the United States. Treatment of rodent pathogen reservoirs with an oral acaricide may suppress the production of infected host ...
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Blacklegged Tick or Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae)
EDIS, 2003 In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say affects the greatest number of people for three principal reasons: their geographic distribution coincides in the northeastern United States with the greatest concentration of humans ...
Michael R. Patnaude, Thomas N. Mather
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A machine learning framework for estimating the probability of blacklegged tick population establishment in eastern Canada using Earth observation data. [PDF]
PLoS OneIxodes scapularis ticks are the primary vector of Lyme disease (LD) in North America, and their range has expanded into southeastern and southcentral Canada with climate change.
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LYMESIM 2.0: An Updated Simulation of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Population Dynamics and Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae). [PDF]
J Med Entomol, 2020 Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, and the number of cases reported each year continues to rise. The complex nature of the relationships between the pathogen (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto), the ...
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Landscape Features Associated With Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Density and Tick-Borne Pathogen Prevalence at Multiple Spatial Scales in Central New York State [PDF]
Journal of medical entomology, 2018 Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis Say, Acari: Ixodidae) are the most commonly encountered and medically relevant tick species in New York State (NY) and have exhibited recent geographic range expansion.
Nicholas P Piedmonte +3 more
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Changes in the geographic distribution of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in the United States. [PDF]
Ticks Tick Borne Dis, 2023 Eisen L, Eisen RJ.
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No Evidence of Competition Between the Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) and American Dog Tick on the Rodent Host White-Footed Deermouse (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Southwestern Tennessee [PDF]
Journal of medical entomology, 2021 Investigations that analyze interspecific associations of vectors on their hosts are important for understanding community structure and implementing ways to comprehend mechanisms of pathogen transmission. We assessed the interspecific association of two
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Lyme Disease Emergence after Invasion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2016. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2019 Analysis of surveillance data for 2010–2016 in eastern Ontario, Canada, demonstrates the rapid northward spread of Ixodes scapularis ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi, followed by increasing human Lyme disease incidence.
Kulkarni MA +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 BackgroundThe genus Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria: Rickettsiales) encompasses numerous obligate intracellular species with predominantly ciliate and arthropod hosts.
Victoria I. Verhoeve +4 more
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InsectsIn the northeastern USA, the distribution of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) has expanded northward in recent decades, overlapping with the range of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). Blacklegged ticks carry pathogens for diseases such as Lyme,
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