Tickborne disease awareness and protective practices among US Forest Service employees from the upper Midwest, USA

A Schotthoefer, K Stinebaugh, M Martin… - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
working outdoors in suitable tick habitats are predicted to be at an increased risk for tick-borne
diseases (… scoring in the high knowledge category on the tick-borne diseases KAP survey …

Tick magnets: The occupational risk of tickborne disease exposure in forestry workers in New York

A Roome, S Gouli, R Yodsuwan, J Victory… - Health Science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… of tick-borne disease risk among forestry workers compared to … of 3941 employees in the
forestry & logging industry in all of New … the number of ticks removed across the study groups. …

[HTML][HTML] … for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies and associated risk factors among forestry workers in northern France, 2019 to …

A Septfons, E Rigaud, L Bénézet, A Velay… - …, 2023 - eurosurveillance.org
forestry workers increased with duration of employment: from 7.0% (95% CI: 4.3–11.1) in
persons with 1–5 years of work … between seropositivity and type of forest environment and …

Seroprevalence of vector-borne pathogens in outdoor workers from southern Italy and associated occupational risk factors

A Stufano, R Iatta, G Sgroi, HR Jahantigh… - Parasites & vectors, 2022 - Springer
… Overall, reports on tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are … The forestry workers and the farmers
participated in the study … and agronomists were recruited among the employees of the University …

Knowledge, habits and attitudes towards TBE and other tick-borne diseases in German forestry trainees

MSM Rodriguez, K Kaier, M Hehn, JP Borde - … and tick-borne diseases, 2020 - Elsevier
… Being employed as a forestry worker was linked to an increased risk for TBE (OR 8.96) (…
To our knowledge, there are no data available on KAP in specific occupational high-risk groups

… , and practices on tick-borne encephalitis virus and tick-borne diseases within professionally tick-exposed persons, health care workers, and general population in …

A Vasić, J Bjekić, G Veinović, D Mihaljica… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… TBE is more frequent in risk groups such as forestry and agriculture workers, hunters, hikers…
about the properties among tested groups. Furthermore, frequency tables were employed for …

Tick bites in different professions and regions: pooled cross-sectional study in the focus area Bavaria, Germany

L Schielein, L Tizek, T Biedermann, A Zink - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
… It was found that forestry workers had a high seroprevalence of LB and other tick-borne
diseases (TBD) as well as a background of high tick exposure at work and a self-reported history …

Occupational Lyme disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

N Magnavita, I Capitanelli, O Ilesanmi, F Chirico - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
other tick-borne diseases. Three studies were unavailable. … ie, the risk for forestry workers
is only modest, while the risk for … to ticks in work environments, especially among foresters and …

Forestry workers

M Haeberle - Kanerva's occupational dermatology, 2020 - Springer
… in forests in recreational activities have a much higher risk of … by borreliosis and other
tick-borne diseases. In Germany, … wet work and plant dermatitis occur among forestry workers – …

A knowledge, attitudes, and practices study on ticks and tick-borne diseases in cattle among farmers in a selected area of eastern Bhutan

J Namgyal, T Tenzin, S Checkley, TJ Lysyk, S Rinchen… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… Funding: This work was a part of JN's MSc thesis titled "… ) had also seen them on vegetation
in the forests; 11 (4.5%) had seen … Among the age groups, old cattle and young calves were …