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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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, 2023 The blacklegged tick is an emerging species of ticks (Family: Ixodidae) in Michigan and is the primary vector for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Miller, William L. +6 more
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, 2023 During 2017 and 2018, we collected the quantity of questing blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), also known as deer ticks, in 128 sampling sites of 5m by 5m in four state parks—Caumsett State Park, Connetquot River State Park, Rockefeller Park Preserve,
Sun, S
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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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Ecosphere, 2022 Forest and wildlife management can help regulate the risk of human exposure to tick‐borne pathogens by influencing the population density of host‐seeking ticks and the pathogen infection prevalence in tick populations.
Scott R. Larson +4 more
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HOST SELECTION BY BLACKLEGGED TICKS (IXODES SCAPULARIS) [PDF]
The mechanisms that drive how parasites ultimately end up feeding upon different host species can have profound consequences for our expectations of parasite range expansion, extinction risk, and in disease risk.
Burton, Emily
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is established in several regions of Ontario, Canada, and continues to spread into new geographic areas across the province at a rapid rate. This poses a significant public health risk since I.
Andreea M Slatculescu +9 more
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Two Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strains in Ixodes scapularis Ticks, Canada
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 We developed PCR-based assays to distinguish a human pathogenic strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ap-ha, from Ap-variant 1, a strain not associated with human infection. The assays were validated on A.
Chantel N. Krakowetz +3 more
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Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera : Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari : Ixodidae) from Hungary [PDF]
, 2006 Fleas (95 Pulex irritans, 50 Ctenocephalides felis, 45 Ctenocephalides canis) and ixodid ticks (223 Ixodes ricinus, 231 Dermacentor reticulatus, 204 Haemaphysalis concinna) were collected in Hungary and tested, in assays based on PCR, for Bartonella ...
Tornyai, K. +4 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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