The increasing prevalence of Lyme disease and the emergence of other tick-associated
human diseases in the United States have become a major public health concern. A wide …

Ticks and tickborne diseases are increasingly problematic. There have been positive
developments that should result in improved strategies and better tools to suppress ticks …

Ticks have become an increasing problem to people and animals in the United States. Ticks
are obligate blood-feeders that require an animal host to survive and reproduce. They feed …

Ticks cause substantial problems, both as nuisance pests and as vectors of human disease.
They are also responsible for enormous economic losses resulting from decreased vigor in …

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 …

More than half the world's population is at risk of exposure to vector-borne pathogens.
Annually, more than 1 billion people are infected and more than 1 million die from vector …

A computer model (LYMESIM) was developed to simulate the effects of management
technologies on populations of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, and the Lyme …

Tick population control technologies have been studied for several decades but no method
is successful in all situations. The success of each technology depends on tick species …

Background: Controlling populations of ticks with biological or chemical acaricides is often
advocated as a means of reducing human exposure to tick-borne diseases. Reducing tick …

Tickborne diseases (TBDs) such as Lyme disease result in≈ 500,000 diagnoses annually in
the United States. Various methods can reduce the abundance of ticks at small spatial …