SynthesisJournal of medical entomology2021
Trends and Opportunities in Tick-Borne Disease Geography.
Synthesis in Journal of medical entomology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Six Decades of Global Research on Bovine Babesiosis Vaccines: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Trends in mosquito species distribution modeling: insights for vector surveillance and disease control.Parasites & vectors · 2023Pooled it
- Epidemiological Survey of Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogens in Questing Ticks from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Mapping tick-borne hazard across gradients of urban intensity in metropolitan regions.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Spatial Epidemiology and Ecological Determinants of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Co-Circulation in Brijuni National Park, Croatia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- High diversity and distribution of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Sudan emphasizes the need for implementing cost-effective community One Health strategy.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Assessment of human health risks to tick-borne infections in urban green spaces (UGS) - a study protocol.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Linking tick and wildlife host distributions to map risk of tick-borne diseases.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Variables for habitat and vertebrate hosts of Ixodes scapularis are the best ecological predictors of the spatial spread of Lyme disease in the United States (2010-2019).Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Silent Carriers: The Role of Rodents in the Emergence of Zoonotic Bacterial Threats.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Scent detection dogs detect a species of hard tick, Dermacentor albipictus, with comparable accuracy and efficiency to traditional tick drag surveys.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Different environmental factors predict the occurrence of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and reveal new potential risk areas across Europe via geospatial models.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Spotted fever group rickettsiae in black rats, pets, and humans in Zungarococha community, A rural area in the surroundings of Iquitos, Peru.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2025Article
- Machine learning algorithms for the evaluation of risk by tick-borne pathogens in Europe.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
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- Models and data used to predict the abundance and distribution ofLancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- Scrutinizing Clinical Biomarkers in a Large Cohort of Patients with Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Mapping the distribution of Amblyomma americanum in Georgia, USA.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Human Tick-Borne Diseases and Advances in Anti-Tick Vaccine Approaches: A Comprehensive Review.Vaccines · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors.
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Abstract
Tick-borne diseases are a growing problem in many parts of the world, and their surveillance and control touch on challenging issues in medical entomology, agricultural health, veterinary medicine, and biosecurity. Spatial approaches can be used to synthesize the data generated by integrative One Health surveillance systems, and help stakeholders, managers, and medical geographers understand the current and future distribution of risk. Here, we performed a systematic review of over 8,000 studies and identified a total of 303 scientific publications that map tick-borne diseases using data on vectors, pathogens, and hosts (including wildlife, livestock, and human cases). We find that the field is growing rapidly, with the major Ixodes-borne diseases (Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis in particular) giving way to monitoring efforts that encompass a broader range of threats. We find a tremendous diversity of methods used to map tick-borne disease, but also find major gaps: data on the enzootic cycle of tick-borne pathogens is severely underutilized, and mapping efforts are mostly limited to Europe and North America. We suggest that future work can readily apply available methods to track the distributions of tick-borne diseases in Africa and Asia, following a One Health approach that combines medical and veterinary surveillance for maximum impact.
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