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Spatial and temporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis and tick-borne pathogens across the northeastern United States | Parasites & Vectors | Full Text (parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com)

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Tick-borne diseases accounted for 77% of all vector-borne disease reports in the USA from 2004 to 2016, and 82% of these reported tick-borne disease cases were Lyme disease.

Conclusions

Our efforts revealed the complications of creating a comprehensive dataset of tick abundance and pathogen prevalence across time and space due to variations in tick collection and pathogen testing methods.

Although tick abundance has not changed along the more southern latitudes in our study over this time period, and only gradually changed in the more northern latitudes of our study, human risk for exposure to tick-borne pathogens has increased due to increased pathogen prevalence in I. scapularis.

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