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Rapid Northward Expansion of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis, in Response to Climate Change
Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2025.The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, can transmit human diseases such as Lyme disease and is exposing new human populations to this risk due to its rapid expansion into Canada. We used community science data (eTick and iNaturalist) to understand the environmental factors responsible for the distribution of I.
Jacob R. Westcott +3 more
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023 The 4-Poster Tick Control Deer Feeder (4-poster) device applies acaricide to white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and can reduce populations of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis), which transmits the agents of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis ...
Courtney C. Nawrocki +15 more
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, 2018 Ticks are obligatory ectoparasites of many vertebrate hosts including human. Osmoregulatory functions of ticks are crucial for the survival, especially, in the off-host ticks in arid area.
Arnsperger, Alyssa +2 more
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Lyme Disease in Fairfield County, Connecticut: The Need to Know [PDF]
, 2019 There has been a steady rise in number of cases reported of Lyme disease in the past 25 years. In fact, it is the 7th most common reportable infectious disease in US with an estimated over 300,000 people diagnosed and treated each year. The total medical
Chen, Jack
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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 +6 more
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Geospatial Analysis of Rickettsial Species [PDF]
, 2019 Rickettsia species are obligate intracellular, arthropod-borne bacteria with a potential to cause multiple diseases including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF).
Frank, Amy
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 515-524, September 2025.One thousand one hundred ninety‐eight adult Dermacentor variabilis (Say), a species of veterinary and human medical importance, were collected from companion animals in central and eastern Canada. Peaks in adult D. variabilis submissions occurred in May and June across the provinces. Most submissions of adult D.
Grace K. Nichol +4 more
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Guide to ticks and tick-borne diseases (2013) [PDF]
, 2013 "New 08/13/2M.""This publication is part of a series of IPM Manuals prepared by the Plant Protection Programs of the University of Missouri. Topics covered in the series include an introduction to scouting, weed identification and management, plant ...
Houseman, Richard M.
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Permission to bite: White‐footed mice show no increased grooming response to tick infestation
Journal of Zoology, Volume 326, Issue 2, Page 140-147, June 2025.White‐footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) are one of the most frequently studied hosts of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis); however, interactions between white‐footed mice and ticks are not easily observed. This study aimed to quantify activity patterns in white‐footed mice and to assess their behavioral responses to parasitism by blacklegged ticks ...
J. E. Brown, P. Chuard, E. T. Machtinger
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