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A Computer Vision Approach to Identifying Ticks Related to Lyme Disease

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2022
Background: Lyme disease (caused by Borrelia burgdorferi) is an infectious disease transmitted to humans by a bite from infected blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in eastern North America.
Sina Akbarian, Mark P. Nelder, Curtis B. Russell, Tania Cawston, Laurent Moreno, Samir N. Patel, Vanessa G. Allen, Elham Dolatabadi   +7 more
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Population-based passive tick surveillance and detection of expanding foci of blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis and the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi in Ontario, Canada. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
We identified ticks submitted by the public from 2008 through 2012 in Ontario, Canada, and tested blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis for Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Among the 18 species of ticks identified, I.
Mark P Nelder, Curtis Russell, L Robbin Lindsay, Badal Dhar, Samir N Patel, Steven Johnson, Stephen Moore, Erik Kristjanson, Ye Li, Filip Ralevski   +9 more
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Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015
The phenology of tick emergence has important implications for the transmission of tick-borne pathogens. A long lag between the emergence of tick nymphs in spring and larvae in summer should increase transmission of persistent pathogens by allowing infected nymphs to inoculate the population of naive hosts that can subsequently transmit the pathogen to
Taal, Levi, Felicia, Keesing, Kelly, Oggenfuss, Richard S, Ostfeld   +3 more
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Monitoring the patterns of submission and presence of tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes scapularis collected from humans and companion animals in Ontario, Canada (2011–2017)

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background The universal nature of the human–companion animal relationship and their shared ticks and tick-borne pathogens offers an opportunity for improving public and veterinary health surveillance.
Mark P. Nelder, Curtis B. Russell, Antonia Dibernardo, Katie M. Clow, Steven Johnson, Kirby Cronin, Samir N. Patel, L. Robbin Lindsay   +7 more
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Tick-Borne Pathogens in Questing Blacklegged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) From Pike County, Pennsylvania

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2022
Abstract Active surveillance was conducted by collecting questing ticks from vegetation through a 2-yr survey in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Over a thousand blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis Say) and American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis Say) were collected. A single specimen of the following species was collected: lone star tick (
Sarah Schwartz, Elizabeth Calvente, Emily Rollinson, Destiny Sample Koon Koon, Nicole Chinnici   +4 more
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Neurophysiological and behavioral responses of blacklegged ticks to host odors

Journal of Insect Physiology, 2021
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis (Ixodida, Ixodidae), is one of the major disease vectors in the United States, and due to multiple human impact factors, such as decreasing forest size for land development and climate change, it has expanded its range and established across the United States.
Tanya, Josek, Jared, Sperrazza, Marianne, Alleyne, Zainulabeuddin, Syed   +3 more
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Exposure to Tick-Borne Pathogens in Cats and Dogs Infested With Ixodes scapularis in Quebec: An 8-Year Surveillance Study

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Cats that spend time outdoors and dogs are particularly at risk of exposure to ticks and the pathogens they transmit. A retrospective study on data collected through passive tick surveillance was conducted to estimate the risk of exposure to tick-borne ...
Lauriane Duplaix, Lauriane Duplaix, Victoria Wagner, Victoria Wagner, Salima Gasmi, Salima Gasmi, L. Robbin Lindsay, Antonia Dibernardo, Karine Thivierge, Karine Thivierge, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Christopher Fernandez-Prada, Julie Arsenault, Julie Arsenault   +15 more
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Passive Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from Northeast Pennsylvania

Life, 2023
Monitoring the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in wildlife is vital to public health. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the United States have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and their interactions with ...
Erin A. Hunt, Sarah Schwartz, Nicole Chinnici   +2 more
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Tick Densities and Infection Prevalence on Coastal Islands in Massachusetts, USA: Establishing a Baseline

Insects, 2023
Tick-borne diseases and a tick-induced red meat allergy have become increasingly common in the northeastern USA and elsewhere. At the scale of local communities, few studies have documented tick densities or infection levels to characterize current ...
Allison A. Snow, Patrick Pearson, Guang Xu, David N. Allen, Roberto Santamaria, Stephen M. Rich   +5 more
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Cryptic Genes for Interbacterial Antagonism Distinguish Rickettsia Species Infecting Blacklegged Ticks From Other Rickettsia Pathogens

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, Tyesha D. Fauntleroy, Riley G. Risteen, Timothy P. Driscoll, Joseph J. Gillespie   +4 more
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