Acaricidal Biominerals and Mode-of-Action Studies against Adult Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis. [PDF]
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 ...
Cave GL +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 The questing behaviors of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are largely regulated by environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and vegetation.
Chong Di +3 more
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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 +7 more
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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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Evaluating the Distribution of Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in a Region of Recent Expansion [PDF]
, 2021 Blacklegged ticks are the primary vector for Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the United States. In the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, established populations of blacklegged ticks were first reported in southwestern counties in 1998.
Miller, William L. +5 more
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Prevalence of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis at Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario. [PDF]
Int J Med Sci, 2016 Lyme disease has emerged as a major health concern in Canada, where the etiological agent, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), a spirochetal bacterium, is typically spread by the bite of certain ticks.
Scott JD +5 more
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Evidence for Personal Protective Measures to Reduce Human Contact With Blacklegged Ticks and for Environmentally Based Control Methods to Suppress Host-Seeking Blacklegged Ticks and Reduce Infection with Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Tick Vectors and Rodent Reservoirs. [PDF]
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2016 Lars Eisen, Marc C Dolan
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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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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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