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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 +15 more
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Seasonality in Diurnal Locomotory Patterns of Adult Blacklegged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) [PDF]
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2005 We continuously recorded the activity of adult and nymphal blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis Say, exposed to diurnal light and temperature cycles in a laboratory test chamber by using a digital camera controlled by an intervalometer. Adult ticks collected and tested in the fall exhibited a bimodal pattern of activity, with peaks shortly after lights
Stephanie C. Madden, Robert C. Madden
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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 +2 more
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bioRxiv, 2022 Three compounds derived from botanicals sources, ethyl perillyl carbonate, geranyl isovalerate, and citronellyl cyclobutane carboxylate, were tested for repellent activity against Ixodes scapularis Say in a semi-field trial.
X. Lee +3 more
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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 +5 more
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Bunyaviruses are common in male and female Ixodes scapularis ticks in central Pennsylvania [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis is widely distributed in the United States and transmits multiple pathogens to humans, wildlife and domestic animals. Recently, several novel viruses in the family Bunyaviridae (South Bay virus (SBV) and Blacklegged
Joyce M. Sakamoto +6 more
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Comparative hologenomics of two Ixodes scapularis tick populations in New Jersey [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Tick-borne diseases, such as those transmitted by the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis, are a significant and growing public health problem in the US.
Dana C. Price +3 more
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Insects, 2019 Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis Say) are the vector for pathogens that cause more cases of human disease than any other arthropod. Lyme disease is the most common, caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (Johnson, Schmid, Hyde ...
Megan A. Linske +5 more
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Citizen science informs human-tick exposure in the Northeastern United States
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2019 Background Tick-borne disease is the result of spillover of pathogens into the human population. Traditionally, literature has focused on characterization of tick-borne disease pathogens and ticks in their sylvatic cycles.
W. Tanner Porter +7 more
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When is a parasite not a parasite? Effects of larval tick burdens on white-footed mouse survival [PDF]
, 2014 Many animal species can carry considerable burdens of ectoparasites: parasites living on the outside of a host's body. Ectoparasite infestation can decrease host survival, but the magnitude and even direction of survival effects can vary depending on the
Hersh, Michelle H. +3 more
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