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Identifying environmental and human factors associated with tick bites using volunteered reports and frequent pattern mining [PDF]

, 2017
Tick populations and tick-borne diseases like Lyme borreliosis have been steadily increasing since the mid-1990s. Realizing the threat that ticks pose to public health, two Dutch citizen science projects have collected tick bite reports since 2006.
Bennema, Sita, Swart, Arno, Garcia-Marti, Irene, Margriet Harms, Harms, Margriet, Arno Swart, Arnold J.H. van Vliet, Zurita-Milla, R., Sita Bennema, Zurita-Milla, Raul; id_orcid, Garcia-Marti, I., van Vliet, A.J.H., van den Wijngaard, K.C., Kees C. van den Wijngaard, Harms, M., van Vliet, Arnold J.H., Raul Zurita‐Milla, Swart, A., Irene Garcia‐Martí, van den Wijngaard, Kees C., Bennema, S.   +20 more
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Tick bites and erythema migrans in eastern Austria: A large outpatient survey

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Background: Data on tick bites and erythema migrans (EM) in eastern Austria remain limited despite ongoing changes in tick ecology. Methods: A survey was conducted including 3005 dermatology patients in eastern Austria.
CA Kirchler, C Anzur, M Zikeli, C Wagger, S Wanke, T Scherz, RR Müllegger   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repellent efficacy of 20 essential oils on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Ixodes scapularis ticks in contact-repellency assays

Scientific Reports, 2023
Cases of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases are rising worldwide. Repellent products can protect individual users from being infected by such diseases. In a previous study, we identified five essential oils that display long-distance mosquito repellency ...
Hailey A. Luker, Keyla R. Salas, Delaram Esmaeili, F. Omar Holguin, Harley Bendzus-Mendoza, Immo A. Hansen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brighter Bites Annual Report 2020 [PDF]

, 2021
Brighter Bites started out the year excited about our program's expansion and growth to our seventh market, Salinas, California; then the pandemic changed everything.

core   +2 more sources

Tick related diseases in Switzerland, 2008 to 2011

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012
QUESTION UNDER STUDY: To determine the incidence and determinants of tick related diseases in Switzerland, such as tick bites and Lyme borreliosis in primary care and tick borne encephalitis.
Ekkehardt Altpeter, Hanspeter Zimmermann, Jürgen Oberreich, Olivier Péter, Charles Dvořák, Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of Ixodes ricinus Bites in a Population of Forestry Workers in an Endemic Region in France

Pathogens
The progressing worldwide increases in tick occurrence and tick-borne diseases calls for the development of new prevention strategies to reduce their impact on human and animal health.
Antoine Grillon, Erik Sauleau, Nathalie Boulanger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding tick-borne diseases among an at-risk population living in Niigata prefecture, Japan.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectiveThis study examined the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of an at-risk population living in Niigata prefecture regarding tick-borne diseases (TBDs) and preventive strategies.MethodsA cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was ...
Taichi Narita, Hansani Madushika Abeywickrama, Marcello Otake Sato, Kozo Watanabe, Reiko Arai, Tsutomu Tamura, Megumi Sato   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low Risk Perception about Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in an Area Recently Invaded by Ticks in Northwestern Italy

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
Risk perception, together with the adoption of measures to prevent tick bites, may strongly influence human exposure to ticks and transmitted pathogens. We created a questionnaire to evaluate how people perceive the health risk posed by ticks in an area ...
Aitor Garcia-Vozmediano, Giorgia Giglio, Elisa Ramassa, Fabrizio Nobili, Luca Rossi, Laura Tomassone   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microfluidic Nano‐Assembly of Red‐Blood‐Cell (RBC) Lipids and Components for Engineering Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Engineered red blood cell‐derived extracellular vesicles (eRBCEVs) are synthesized via controlled microfluidic assembly from native RBC lipids, enabling tunable encapsulation of proteins, nucleic acids, nanoparticles, and viral vectors. The platform demonstrates reproducible nanoscale architecture, preserved membrane composition, and functional cargo ...
Chiranth K. Nagaraj, Xilal Y. Rima, Kim T. Nguyen, Courtney Culkins, Nana Boateng, Jacob Doon‐Ralls, Alejandro Bresolin, Xin Huang, Hong Li, Vahedi Amid, Ajeet Pal Singh, Dharti Shantaram, Anastasiia Amari, Mangesh D. Hade, Nicholas R. Merriam, Zachary D. Schultz, Scott Q. Harper, Nizar Y. Saad, Setty M. Magaña, Willa A. Hsueh, Rachel E. Kopec, Blaise R. Kimmel, Andre F. Palmer, Eduardo Reátegui   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source