ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
The passive surveillance of ticks using companion animal electronic health records.
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- First quantitative assessment of the effects of parasite control in dogs and cats in the UK.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Risk factors for tick attachment in companion animals in Great Britain: a spatiotemporal analysis covering 2014-2021.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Text mining for disease surveillance in veterinary clinical data: part one, the language of veterinary clinical records and searching for words.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Developing a framework for a western Canadian companion animal surveillance initiative: Case definitions and the role of the veterinarian.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2023Article
- Mapping and monitoring tick (Acari, Ixodida) distribution, seasonality, and host associations in the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2020.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of companion animal AMR in the United States of America: filling a gap in the one health approach.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The wild life of ticks: Using passive surveillance to determine the distribution and wildlife host range of ticks and the exotic Haemaphysalis longicornis, 2010-2021.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- One Health Approach to Tick and Tick-Borne Disease Surveillance in the United Kingdom.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Multicenter randomized, and blinded European field study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Felpreva®, a novel spot-on formulation containing emodepside, praziquantel and tigolaner, in treating cats naturally infested with fleas and/or ticks.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2022Article
- Canine and Feline Parasitology: Analogies, Differences, and Relevance for Human Health.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2021Review
- An analysis of companion animal tick encounters as revealed by photograph-based crowdsourced data.Veterinary medicine and science · 2021Article
- Comparing Contributions of Passive and Active Tick Collection Methods to Determine Establishment of Ticks of Public Health Concern Within Illinois.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Article
- Importation of Ticks on Companion Animals and the Risk of Spread of Tick-Borne Diseases to Non-Endemic Regions in Europe.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Distribution and prevalence of ticks and tick-borne disease on sheep and cattle farms in Great Britain.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Emerging Threats to Animals in the United Kingdom by Arthropod-Borne Diseases.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Ticks represent a large global reservoir of zoonotic disease. Current surveillance systems can be time and labour intensive. We propose that the passive surveillance of companion animal electronic health records (EHRs) could provide a novel methodology for describing temporal and spatial tick activity. A total of 16 58 857 EHRs were collected over a 2-year period (31 March 2014 and 29 May 2016) from companion animals attending a large sentinel network of 192 veterinary clinics across Great Britain (the Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Network - SAVSNET). In total, 2180 EHRs were identified where a tick was recorded on an animal. The relative risk of dogs presenting with a tick compared with cats was 0·73 (95% confidence intervals 0·67-0·80). The highest number of tick records were in the south central regions of England. The presence of ticks showed marked seasonality with summer peaks, and a secondary smaller peak in autumn for cats; ticks were still being found throughout most of Great Britain during the winter. This suggests that passive surveillance of companion animal EHRs can describe tick activity temporally and spatially in a large cohort of veterinary clinics across Great Britain. These results and methodology could help inform veterinary and public health messages as well as increase awareness of ticks and tick-borne diseases in the general population.
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