[PDF][PDF] Tick and tickborne pathogen surveillance as a public health tool in the United States

RJ Eisen, CD Paddock - Journal of Medical Entomology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In recent decades, tickborne disease (TBD) cases and established populations of medically
important ticks have been reported over expanding geographic areas, and an increasing …

Benefits and drawbacks of citizen science to complement traditional data gathering approaches for medically important hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States

L Eisen, RJ Eisen - Journal of medical entomology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tick-borne diseases are increasing in North America. Knowledge of which tick species and
associated human pathogens are present locally can inform the public and medical …

Perception of ticks and tick-borne diseases worldwide

J de la Fuente, A Estrada-Peña, M Rafael, C Almazán… - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this comprehensive review study, we addressed the challenge posed by ticks and tick-
borne diseases (TBDs) with growing incidence affecting human and animal health …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of acarological risk metrics derived from active and passive surveillance and their concordance with tick-borne disease incidence

KM Holcomb, N Khalil, DW Cozens, JL Cantoni… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tick-borne diseases continue to threaten human health across the United States. Both active
and passive tick surveillance can complement human case surveillance, providing spatio …

A scoping review of species distribution modeling methods for tick vectors

HL Kopsco, RL Smith, SJ Halsey - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Globally, tick-borne disease is a pervasive and worsening problem that impacts
human and domestic animal health, livelihoods, and numerous economies. Species …

Reported county-level distribution of Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae), in host …

AC Fleshman, CB Graham, SE Maes… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. While Lyme
disease vectors are widespread, high incidence states are concentrated in the Northeast …

Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease

AM Gardner, NC Pawlikowski… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Lyme disease, the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America, is increasing in
incidence and geographic distribution as the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis, spreads to new …

Ecological interactions driving population dynamics of two tick-borne pathogens, Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti

DM Tufts, B Adams… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and Babesia microti (Bm) are vector-borne zoonotic pathogens
commonly found co-circulating in Ixodes scapularis and Peromyscus leucopus populations …

The rise of ticks and tickborne diseases in the United States—introduction

CB Beard, L Eisen, RJ Eisen - Journal of medical entomology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ticks and tickborne diseases have been recognized as threats to the health of humans and
domestic animals for more than a century in the United States. However, as outlined in the …

Increasing incidence of spotted fever group rickettsioses in the United States, 2010–2018

A Bishop, J Borski, HH Wang… - Vector-Borne and …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Spotted fever group Rickettsia species are intracellular bacteria transmitted by tick or mite
vectors and that cause human diseases referred to as spotted fever group rickettsioses, or …