ArticleJournal of medical entomology2020
Reported County-Level Distribution of the American Dog Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States.
Article in Journal of medical entomology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Surveillance of tick-borne pathogens present in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) removed from companion animals in Louisiana, USA.Journal of medical entomology · 2025Article
- Human risk to tick encounters in the southeastern United States estimated with spatial distribution modeling.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Describing the experience of livestock producers from Ohio, USA with ticks and associated diseases.One health outlook · 2023Article
- Invasive Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) investigation in South Carolina: new records of establishment, pathogen prevalence, and blood meal analyses.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
- Comparison of acarological risk metrics derived from active and passive surveillance and their concordance with tick-borne disease incidence.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2023Article
- Newer Surveillance Data Extends our Understanding of the Niche ofVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Detection ofJournal of veterinary research · 2023Article
- Newer Surveillance Data Extends our Understanding of the Niche ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- A forty-year review of Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases in California shows clinical and epidemiologic changes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Review
- American dog ticks along their expanding range edge in Ontario, Canada.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Article
- Identification ofVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Tick and Tickborne Pathogen Surveillance as a Public Health Tool in the United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Review
- 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
- Barriers to Effective Tick Management and Tick-Bite Prevention in the United States (Acari: Ixodidae).Journal of medical entomology · 2021Article
- Dermacentor variabilis is the Predominant Dermacentor spp. (Acari: Ixodidae) Feeding on Dogs and Cats Throughout the United States.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Article
- 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
- 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
- Establishing a baseline for tick surveillance in Alaska: Tick collection records from 1909-2019.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2020Article
- A standardized method for the construction of a tick drag/flag sampling approach and evaluation of sampling efficacy.Experimental & applied acarology · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
In the United States, tick-borne diseases are increasing in incidence and cases are reported over an expanding geographical area. Avoiding tick bites is a key strategy in tick-borne disease prevention, and this requires current and accurate information on where humans are at risk for exposure to ticks. Based on a review of published literature and records in the U.S. National Tick Collection and National Ecological Observatory Network databases, we compiled an updated county-level map showing the reported distribution of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say). We show that this vector of the bacterial agents causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia is widely distributed, with records derived from 45 states across the contiguous United States. However, within these states, county-level records of established tick populations are limited. Relative to the range of suitable habitat for this tick, our data imply that D. variabilis is currently underreported in the peer-reviewed literature, highlighting a need for improved surveillance and documentation of existing tick records.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.