Recent progress in Lyme disease and remaining challenges

JR Bobe, BL Jutras, EJ Horn, ME Embers… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis) is the most common vector-borne disease in
the United States with an estimated 476,000 cases per year. While historically, the long-term …

Control of ixodid ticks and prevention of tick-borne diseases in the United States: The prospect of a new Lyme disease vaccine and the continuing problem with tick …

L Eisen - Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the United States, exposure to human-biting ixodid ticks can occur while
spending time on residential properties or in neighborhood green spaces as well as during …

Impact of land use changes and habitat fragmentation on the eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases

MA Diuk-Wasser, MC VanAcker… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Behavioral risk factors associated with reported tick exposure in a Lyme disease high incidence region in Canada

C Aenishaenslin, K Charland, N Bowser… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Tick-borne diseases, and especially Lyme Disease (LD), are on the rise in
Canada and have been met with increasing public health concern. To face these emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of tick-control interventions on tick abundance, human encounters with ticks, and incidence of tickborne diseases in residential neighborhoods, New …

F Keesing, S Mowry, W Bremer, S Duerr… - Emerging Infectious …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

Human‐tick encounters as a measure of tickborne disease risk in lyme disease endemic areas

SA Hook, CC Nawrocki, JI Meek… - Zoonoses and public …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Entomological measures have long served as proxies for human risk of Lyme disease (LD)
and other tickborne diseases (TBDs) in endemic areas of the United States, despite …

Risk of tick-borne pathogen spillover into urban yards in New York City

N Gregory, MP Fernandez, M Diuk-Wasser - Parasites & Vectors, 2022 - Springer
Background The incidence of tick-borne disease has increased dramatically in recent
decades, with urban areas increasingly recognized as high-risk environments for exposure …

Does Experimental Reduction of Blacklegged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) Abundance Reduce Lyme Disease Incidence?

RS Ostfeld, F Keesing - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Controlling the abundance of blacklegged ticks is considered the foundation for the
prevention of human exposure to pathogens transmitted by these vectors in eastern North …

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 …

Forest Diversity Reduces the Prevalence of Pathogens Transmitted by the Tick Ixodes ricinus

A Bourdin, S Bord, J Durand, C Galon… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tick-borne diseases represent the majority of vector-borne human diseases in Europe, with
Ixodes ricinus, mostly present in forests, as the main vector. Studies show that vertebrate …