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SynthesisActa parasitologica2021

Detailed Infestation Spectrums About Biological Stages of Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Hassan Nasirian, Amirhossein Zahirnia

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Synthesis in Acta parasitologica, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Detailed new insights about tick infestations in domestic ruminant groups: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hassan NasirianDepartment of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. hanasirian@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9470-0184
Amirhossein ZahirniaDepartment of Medical Entomology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Hamedan University of Medical Sciences · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeA comprehensive systematic meta-analysis review which deals with the degrees and trends of human infestation by biological stages of ticks, the degrees and trends of human infestation by biological stages of ticks in rural and urban areas, the infestation scale of tick attachment sites in body parts of humans, and the degrees of tick infestation in human age groups is critical. Therefore, this systematic meta-analysis review summarizes the above-detailed human infestation spectrums about biological stages of hard ticks.

methodsAfter a preliminary review from 605 papers representing areas of the study objectives, 96 were selected for detailed human infestation spectrums of biological stages of hard ticks.

resultsIn general, the results suggest that the adult ticks, and mostly females attack humans more than larval and nymphalid ones, and adult males, respectively. Unlike the trends of human infestation by larval and nymphalid stages of ticks, and the adult, male and female ticks which exhibited approximately a sharply decreasing trend, the global trend of human infestation by hard ticks exhibited approximately a sharply increasing trend over time. Ticks attack humans more in rural area than urban area. Also, the trends of human tick infestation in rural and urban areas exhibit, respectively, a sharp increase and decrease trends over time.

conclusionsThe majority of ticks mostly attach to human body trunk and extremity than head and neck, and genital area. Ticks attack human age groups of 0-9, 20-39, and 40-59 years more than those aged between 10 and 19 or older than 60 years.

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IxodidaeTick InfestationsTicksAdolescentAdultAnimalsChildFemaleHumansLarvaMaleRural PopulationYoung AdultDegrees of human infestation by tick biological stagesDegrees of tick infestation in human age groupsHard tickInfestation scale of human tick attachment siteIxodidaeLocality of human tick infestation

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PMID33743132
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