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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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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 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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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

Education on Tickborne Diseases and Prevention Strategies [PDF]

, 2017
Research suggests that around 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year and that around one billion dollars is spent on healthcare for Lyme disease alone.
Bernard, Christopher
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Autocrine/paracrine dopamine in the salivary glands of the blacklegged tick Ixodes scapularis. [PDF]

J Insect Physiol, 2014
Dopamine (DA) is known to be the most potent activator of tick salivary secretion, which is an essential component of successful tick feeding. We examined the quantitative changes of catecholamines using a method coupling high-pressure liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection (HPLC-ECD).
Koči J, Simo L, Park Y.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Modeling the Effects of Reservoir Competence Decay and Demographic Turnover in Lyme Disease Ecology [PDF]

, 2002
Lyme disease risk is related to the abundance of infected nymphal ticks, which in turn depends on the abundance and reservoir competence of wild hosts. Reservoir competence of a host (i.e., probability that an infected host will infect a feeding vector ...
Ostfeld, Richard S, Schauber, Eric M
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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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Geospatial Analysis of Rickettsial Species in Arkansas [PDF]

, 2019
Rickettsia species are obligate intracellular, arthropod-borne bacteria with a potential to cause multiple diseases including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF).
Dowling, Ashley P.G., Frank, Amy D
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