Tick control in a connected world: Challenges, solutions, and public policy from a United States border perspective

HS Tiffin, EG Rajotte, JM Sakamoto… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ticks are able to transmit the highest number of pathogen species of any blood-feeding
arthropod and represent a growing threat to public health and agricultural systems …

Five human pathogens detected by tick surveillance in New York City parks, 2014–2015

W Bajwa, A Kennedy, Z Vincent, G Heck… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A total of 2,504 ticks of 5 species (Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis, Amblyomma
americanum, Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, and H. longicornis) were collected over 2 yr …

Perspectives from federal and state public health departments on their participation in and the utility of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) and Ixodes pacificus tick …

RJ Eisen, E Foster, A Kjemtrup… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In response to notable increases in tick-associated illnesses in the United States, recent
public health policies encouraged multi-sector collaborative approaches to preventing …

A citizen science approach to investigate the distribution, abundance, and pathogen infection of vector ticks through active surveillance

ES Ballman, JE Leahy, CC Sponarski, MG Galli… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tick-borne disease poses a growing public health burden in the United States and
understanding the patterns of presence and density of infected vector ticks is key to …

Evaluating spatial and temporal patterns of tick exposure in the United States using community science data submitted through a smartphone application

PA Kache, GM Bron, S Zapata-Ramirez, JI Tsao… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research initiatives that engage the public (ie, community science or citizen science)
increasingly provide insights into tick exposures in the United States. However, these data …

Crowdsourced tick image-informed updates to US county records of three medically important tick species

HL Kopsco, RJ Duhaime… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Burgeoning cases of tick-borne disease present a significant public health problem in the
United States. Passive tick surveillance gained traction as an effective way to collect …

Identification of public submitted tick images: A neural network approach

L Justen, D Carlsmith, SM Paskewitz, LC Bartholomay… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Ticks and tick-borne diseases represent a growing public health threat in North America and
Europe. The number of ticks, their geographical distribution, and the incidence of tick-borne …

Tick-borne disease prevention behaviors among participants in a tick surveillance system compared with a sample of master gardeners

HL Kopsco, TN Mather - Journal of Community Health, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Theory-based approaches to health communication and behavior are increasingly
applied to interventions that address poor public tick-borne disease prevention knowledge …

Effects of tick surveillance education on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of local health department employees

LA Lyons, N Mateus-Pinilla, RL Smith - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background The number of cases of tick-borne diseases in humans is increasing rapidly
within Illinois. The responsibility for increased surveillance of tick-borne disease cases and …

Analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of Dermacentor albipictus suggests a species complex

S Reynolds, M Hedberg, B Herrin… - Ticks and Tick-Borne …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dermacentor albipictus is a one-host tick broadly distributed across North America. There
are two easily recognizable color variants–ornate and inornate/brown–that have been …