ArticleFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2014
Emergence of Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease vector and agent, in Ohio.
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- Estimating the density of questing Ixodes scapularis nymphs in the eastern United States using climate and land cover data.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2025Article
- Density of host-seeking Ixodes scapularis nymphs by region, state, and county in the contiguous United States generated through national tick surveillance.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2024Article
- Changes in the geographic distribution of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in the United States.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2023Review
- Reported County-Level Distribution of Lyme Disease Spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae), in Host-Seeking Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Article
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- Increasing Burden of Lyme Carditis in United States Children's Hospitals.Pediatric cardiology · 2020Article
- A 117-year retrospective analysis of Pennsylvania tick community dynamics.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Insights From the Geographic Spread of the Lyme Disease Epidemic.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
- Infectious agents in feral swine in Ohio, USA (2009-2015): A low but evolving risk to agriculture and public health.Veterinary and animal science · 2018Article
- County-Scale Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2016Article
- Geographical and Temporal Correlations in the Incidence of Lyme Disease, RMSF, Ehrlichiosis, and Coccidioidomycosis with Search Data.The Journal of investigative dermatology · 2015Article
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- Lyme disease: recent advances and perspectives.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, is caused by a tick-borne infection with Borrelia burgdorferi. Currently, Ohio is considered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be non-endemic for Lyme disease. The low incidence of Lyme disease in this state was largely attributed to the absence of the transmitting vector, Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as the blacklegged tick. However, a tick surveillance program established by Ohio Department of Health indicated that the number of I. scapularis in Ohio had increased sharply in recent years, from 0 - 5 ticks per year during 1983-2008 to 15 in 2009, 40 in 2010, and 184 in 2011. During the fall deer hunting season, examination of deer heads submitted to Ohio Department of Agriculture found 29 I. scapularis from 7 counties in 2010 and 1,830 from 25 counties in 2011. As of 2012, the tick had been found in 57 of the 88 counties of Ohio. In addition, all three active stages (larva, nymph, and adult) of I. scapularis were found in Tiverton Township of Coshocton County, demonstrating the presence of established tick populations at this central Ohio location. Of 530 nymphal or adult I. scapularis analyzed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), 32 (6.1%) tested positive for the B. burgdorferi flaB gene, ranging from 36 to 390,000 copies per tick. Antibodies to B. burgdorferi antigens were detected in 2 of 10 (20%) field-captured Peromyscus leucopus from Tiverton Township, and in 41 of 355 (11.5%) dogs residing in Ohio. Collectively, these data suggest that the enzootic life cycle of B. burgdorferi has become established in Ohio, which poses risk of Lyme disease to people and animals in the area.
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