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The prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi infection, and co-infections with other Borrelia spp. in Ixodes scapularis ticks collected in Canada

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis are vectors of the tick-borne pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti. Recently, the I.
Antonia Dibernardo, Tyler Cote, Nicholas H Ogden, L Robbin Lindsay   +3 more
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Chemosensory and Behavioural Responses of Ixodes scapularis to Natural Products: Role of Chemosensory Organs in Volatile Detection

Insects, 2020
Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, represent a significant public health concern due to their vectoring of tick-borne disease. Despite their medical importance, there is still limited knowledge of the chemosensory system of this species, and thus a ...
Nicoletta Faraone, Michael Light, Catherine Scott, Samantha MacPherson, N. Kirk Hillier   +4 more
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Seasonal Variation in Nymphal Blacklegged Tick Abundance in Southern New England Forests [PDF]

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2007
In the northeastern United States, risk of human exposure to tick transmitted disease is primarily a function of the abundance of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say. We assessed seasonal variability in the abundance of nymphal stage I. scapularis over 13 yr, collected from several forested areas throughout Rhode Island.
Rodgers, Sarah E., Miller, Nathan J., Mather, Thomas N.   +2 more
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The Spread of Lone Star Ticks (Amblyomma americanum) and Persistence of Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) on a Coastal Island in Massachusetts, USA

Insects
In 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,
Richard W. Johnson, Patrick Roden-Reynolds, Allison A. Snow, Stephen M. Rich   +3 more
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Repeated Tick Infestations Impair Borrelia burgdorferi Transmission in a Non-Human Primate Model of Tick Feeding

Pathogens, 2023
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the predominant vector of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease in the USA. Natural hosts of I. scapularis such as Peromyscus leucopus are repeatedly infested by these ticks without acquiring tick ...
Sukanya Narasimhan, Carmen J. Booth, Mario T. Philipp, Erol Fikrig, Monica E. Embers   +4 more
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A Dispersal Model for the Range Expansion of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) [PDF]

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2004
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, a vector for the agents of Lyme borreliosis and other diseases, has expanded its range dramatically over the past 20 yr. However, the relative contributions of different vertebrate host species to this expansion have remained largely unexplored.
Nita K, Madhav, John S, Brownstein, Jean I, Tsao, Durland, Fish   +3 more
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Acaricidal Biominerals and Mode-of-Action Studies against Adult Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis

Microorganisms, 2023
Ticks in the USA are the most important arthropod vector of microbes that cause human and animal disease. The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, the focus of this study, is able to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease in humans in the USA.
Grayson L. Cave, Elise A. Richardson, Kaiying Chen, David W. Watson, R. Michael Roe   +4 more
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Deer management generally reduces densities of nymphal Ixodes scapularis, but not prevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023
Human Lyme disease–primarily caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.) in North America–is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States.
Alynn M. Martin, Danielle Buttke, Jordan Raphael, Kelsey Taylor, Sarah Maes, Christina M. Parise, Howard S. Ginsberg, Paul C. Cross   +7 more
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The First case of Locally Acquired Tick-Borne Babesia Microti Infection in Canada

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2014
A child with a complicated medical history that included asplenia acquired an infection with Babesia microti in the summer of 2013 and had not travelled outside of Manitoba.
Jared MP Bullard, Arshad N Ahsanuddin, Anamarija M Perry, L Robbin Lindsay, Mahmood Iranpour, Antonia Dibernardo, Paul G Van Caeseele   +6 more
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Stemming the Rising Tide of Human-Biting Ticks and Tickborne Diseases, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Ticks and tickborne diseases are increasingly problematic. There have been positive developments that should result in improved strategies and better tools to suppress ticks, reduce human tick bites, and roll back tickborne diseases.
Lars Eisen
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