Personal protection measures to prevent tick bites in the United States: knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities

L Eisen - Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2022 - Elsevier
Personal protection measures to prevent human tick encounters from resulting in bites are
widely recommended as the first line of defense against health impacts associated with ticks …

Risk factors for bites and diseases associated with black-legged ticks: a meta-analysis

IR Fischhoff, F Keesing… - American Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The emergence and spread of Lyme disease and other infections associated with black-
legged ticks is causing a public health crisis. No human vaccines are currently available …

Barriers to effective tick management and tick-bite prevention in the United States (Acari: Ixodidae)

L Eisen, KC Stafford III - Journal of medical entomology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Lyme and other tick-borne diseases are increasing in the United States. Development of tick
control tools have focused primarily on the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say …

Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding tick-borne disease prevention in endemic areas

S Niesobecki, AJ Hansen, H Rutz, S Mehta… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2019 - Elsevier
As part of a TickNET collaboration we evaluated the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
related to tick-borne disease (TBD) prevention among persons living in endemic areas of …

Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding tick-borne disease prevention in Lyme disease-endemic areas of the Upper Midwest, United States

A Beck, J Bjork, BJ Biggerstaff, L Eisen, R Eisen… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are a major public health threat in the Upper
Midwestern United States, including Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. To prevent tick …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland

JJ Sormunen, T Andersson, J Aspi, J Bäck… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2020 - Elsevier
In 2015 a long-term, nationwide tick and tick-borne pathogen (TBP) monitoring project was
started by the Finnish Tick Project and the Finnish Research Station network (RESTAT), with …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York

E Hassett, M Diuk-Wasser, L Harrington… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Public green spaces are important for human health, but they may expose
visitors to ticks and tick-borne pathogens. We sought to understand, for the first time, visitors' …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP) of Italian occupational physicians towards tick borne encephalitis

M Riccò, G Gualerzi, S Ranzieri, P Ferraro… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE) is an occupational health threat with increasing incidence in
the geographic area of Italy. Despite this, TBE vaccination rates have ranged from 10% to …

[HTML][HTML] Context matters: contrasting behavioral and residential risk factors for Lyme disease between high-incidence states in the Northeastern and Midwestern …

GM Bron, MP Fernandez, SR Larson, A Maus… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2020 - Elsevier
The dynamics of zoonotic vector-borne diseases are determined by a complex set of
parameters including human behavior that may vary with socio-ecological contexts. Lyme …

[HTML][HTML] Increased awareness and knowledge of Lyme Borreliosis and tick bite prevention among the general population in France: 2016 and 2019 health barometer …

A Septfons, J Figoni, A Gautier, N Soullier, H de Valk… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most frequent tick-borne disease in France. In the
absence of a vaccine, LB prevention mainly relies on reducing tick bites. In 2016, the French …