ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Effects of Neighborhood-Scale Acaricidal Treatments on Infection Prevalence of Blacklegged Ticks (
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- Ecological and Epidemiological Consequences of Tick-Control Interventions in Residential Neighborhoods: A Synthesis of The Tick Project.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Review
- Minor Hosts Have a Major Impact on the Enzootic Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- The impact of climate change on ecology of tick associated with tick-borne diseases.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Modeling platform to assess the effectiveness of single and integrated Ixodes scapularis tick control methods.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Effects of residential acaricide treatments on patterns of pathogen coinfection in blacklegged ticks.Parasitology · 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
- The major epidemiologic, microbiologic, immunologic, and clinical aspects of Lyme disease that form the basis for a newly developed vaccine that may become available soon for human use.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Spatial variation in risk for tick-borne diseases in residential areas of Dutchess County, New York.PloS one · 2023Article
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12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Acaricides are hypothesized to reduce human risk of exposure to tick-borne pathogens by decreasing the abundance and/or infection prevalence of the ticks that serve as vectors for the pathogens. Acaricides targeted at reservoir hosts such as small mammals are expected to reduce infection prevalence in ticks by preventing their acquisition of zoonotic pathogens. By reducing tick abundance, reservoir-targeted or broadcast acaricides could reduce tick infection prevalence by interrupting transmission cycles between ticks and their hosts. Using an acaricide targeted at small-mammal hosts (TCS bait boxes) and one sprayed on low vegetation (Met52 fungal biocide), we tested the hypotheses that infection prevalence of blacklegged ticks with zoonotic pathogens would be more strongly diminished by TCS bait boxes, and that any effects of both acaricidal treatments would increase during the four years of deployment. We used a masked, placebo-controlled design in 24 residential neighborhoods in Dutchess County, New York. Analyzing prevalence of infection with
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