ArticleScientific reports2019
Frequent Prescribed Fires Can Reduce Risk of Tick-borne Diseases.
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- Tick-borne viruses: discovery, clinical aspects, influencing factors and control.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Harnessing 50 years of tick population genetics: Choosing the right molecular tool for contemporary research.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Review
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- The Trade-offs between Wildfires and Prescribed Fires: A Case Study for 2016 Gatlinburg Wildfires.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Tick phenology, tick-host associations, and tick-borne pathogen surveillance in a recreational forest of East Texas, USA.PloS one · 2025Article
- Modeling the differential effect of prescribed fire on multi-vector tick-borne tularemia disease.PloS one · 2025Article
- Mapping the distribution of Amblyomma americanum in Georgia, USA.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Human risk to tick encounters in the southeastern United States estimated with spatial distribution modeling.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Land system governance shapes tick-related public and animal health risks.Journal of land use science · 2024Article
- Assessing the Influence of Climate Change and Environmental Factors on the Top Tick-Borne Diseases in the United States: A Systematic Review.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Disparate dynamics of pathogen prevalence in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks occurring sympatrically in diverse habitats.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Can restoration of fire-dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick-borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2022Article
- Integrative Alternative Tactics for Ixodid Control.Insects · 2022Review
- Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2022Article
- Arthropods and Fire Within the Biologically Diverse Longleaf Pine Ecosystem.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2022Review
- Exploring the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Tick Spread and Propagation in a Spatial Setting.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
- Active Forest Management Reduces Blacklegged Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Exposure Risk.EcoHealth · 2021Article
- TheFrontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Recently, a two-year study found that long-term prescribed fire significantly reduced tick abundance at sites with varying burn regimes (burned surrounded by burned areas [BB], burned surrounded by unburned areas [BUB], and unburned surrounded by burned areas [UBB]). In the current study, these ticks were tested for pathogens to more directly investigate the impacts of long-term prescribed burning on human disease risk. A total of 5,103 ticks (4,607 Amblyomma americanum, 76 Amblyomma maculatum, 383 Ixodes scapularis, two Ixodes brunneus, and 35 Dermacentor variabilis) were tested for Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp., Ehrlichia spp., and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Long-term prescribed fire did not significantly impact pathogen prevalence except that A. americanum from burned habitats had significantly lower prevalence of Rickettsia (8.7% and 4.6% for BUB and UBB sites, respectively) compared to ticks from control sites (unburned, surrounded by unburned [UBUB])(14.6%). However, during the warm season (spring/summer), encounter rates with ticks infected with pathogenic bacteria was significantly lower (98%) at burned sites than at UBUB sites. Thus, despite there being no differences in pathogen prevalence between burned and UBUB sites, risk of pathogen transmission is lower at sites subjected to long-term burning due to lower encounter rates with infected ticks.
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