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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 ...
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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.
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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 +7 more
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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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Phylogeographic dynamics of the arthropod vector, the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis)
Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background The emergence of vector-borne pathogens in novel geographic areas is regulated by the migration of their arthropod vectors. Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) and the pathogens they vector, including the causative agents of Lyme disease ...
Kayleigh R. O’Keeffe +8 more
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EDIS, 2021 Ehrlichia and Anaplasma are bacteria that cause diseases, known as ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis, in humans and other animals. Ehrlichia and Anaplasma are primarily transmitted through the bites of infected hard ticks, such as the lone star tick, the ...
Yuexun Tian +2 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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Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacterium that causes relapsing fever, is found in ixodid ticks throughout the northern hemisphere. The first cases of human infection with B. miyamotoi were identified in 2011.
F. Keesing +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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Mechanical Acaricides Active against the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis
Insects, 2022 Cases of Lyme disease in humans are on the rise in the United States and Canada. The vector of the bacteria that causes this disease is the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. Current control methods for I. scapularis mainly involve chemical acaricides.
Elise A. Richardson +2 more
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