ArticleZoonoses and public health2021
Human-tick encounters as a measure of tickborne disease risk in lyme disease endemic areas.
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- Spatial modeling of Borrelia genospecies in human-biting ticks from the French citizen science programme CiTIQUE.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Bird-tick and human-tick encounters in the Rio Grande Valley (Texas, USA): ecological associations and pathogen detections.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- By-degree Health and Economic Impacts of Lyme Disease, Eastern and Midwestern United States.EcoHealth · 2024Article
- Tick exposure biomarkers: A One Health approach to new tick surveillance tools.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
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- Behavioral risk factors associated with reported tick exposure in a Lyme disease high incidence region in Canada.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Entomological measures have long served as proxies for human risk of Lyme disease (LD) and other tickborne diseases (TBDs) in endemic areas of the United States, despite conflicting results regarding the correlation between these measures and human disease outcomes. Using data from a previous TBD intervention study in Connecticut, Maryland and New York, we evaluated whether human-tick encounters can serve as an accurate proxy for risk of TBDs in areas where LD and other Ixodes scapularis-transmitted infections are common. Among 2,590 households consisting of 4,210 individuals, experiencing a tick encounter was associated with an increased risk of both self-reported (RR = 3.17, 95% CI: 2.05, 4.91) and verified TBD (RR = 2.60, 95% CI: 1.39, 4.84) at the household level. Household characteristics associated with experiencing any tick encounter were residence in Connecticut (aOR = 1.86, 95% CI: 1.38, 2.51) or New York (aOR = 1.66, 95% CI: 1.25, 2.22), head of household having a graduate level education (aOR = 1.46, 95% CI: 1.04, 2.08), owning a pet (aOR = 1.80, 95% CI: 1.46, 2.23) and a property size of 2 acres or larger (aOR = 2.30, 95% CI: 1.42, 3.70). Results for individual characteristics were similar to those for households. Future prevention studies in LD endemic areas should consider using human-tick encounters as a robust proxy for TBD risk.
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