ArticleScientific reports2018
Using volunteered observations to map human exposure to ticks.
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- Ticks - public health risks in urban green spaces.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- A One Health Evaluation of the Surveillance Systems on Tick-Borne Diseases in the Netherlands, Spain and Italy.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
- Tick exposure and risk of tick-borne pathogens infection in hunters and hunting dogs: a citizen science approach.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- The influence of local environmental factors in southwestern Poland on the abundance of Ixodes ricinus and prevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and B. miyamotoi.Parasitology research · 2022Article
- One Health Approach to Tick and Tick-Borne Disease Surveillance in the United Kingdom.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Mapping potential risks for the transmission of spotted fever rickettsiosis: The case study from the Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.PloS one · 2022Article
- Technological opportunities for sensing of the health effects of weather and climate change: a state-of-the-art-review.International journal of biometeorology · 2021Review
- Benefits and Drawbacks of Citizen Science to Complement Traditional Data Gathering Approaches for Medically Important Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Review
- More than ticking boxes: Training Lyme disease education ambassadors to meet outreach and surveillance challenges in Québec, Canada.PloS one · 2021Article
- Gender-based pairings influence cooperative expectations and behaviours.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Citizen science informs human-tick exposure in the Northeastern United States.International journal of health geographics · 2019Article
- "Tekenscanner": a novel smartphone application for companion animal owners and veterinarians to engage in tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance in the Netherlands.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Modelling tick bite risk by combining random forests and count data regression models.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in Europe and its incidence has steadily increased over the last two decades. In the Netherlands alone, more than 20,000 citizens are affected by LB each year. Because of this, two Dutch citizen science projects were started to monitor tick bites. Both projects have collected nearly 50,000 geo-located tick bite reports over the period 2006-2016. The number of tick bite reports per area unit is a proxy of tick bite risk. This risk can also be modelled as the result of the interaction of hazard (e.g. tick activity) and human exposure (e.g. outdoor recreational activities). Multiple studies have focused on quantifying tick hazard. However, quantifying human exposure is a harder task. In this work, we make a first step to map human exposure to ticks by combining tick bite reports with a tick hazard model. Our results show human exposure to tick bites in all forested areas of the Netherlands. This information could facilitate the cooperation between public health specialists and forest managers to create better mitigation campaigns for tick-borne diseases, and it could also support the design of improved plans for ecosystem management.
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