ArticleJournal of medical entomology2023
Community-based integrated tick management programs: cost and feasibility scenarios.
Article in Journal of medical entomology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of the effectiveness and utility of Lyme disease prevention measures in Canada, the United States, and Europe.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Why are the ticks winning, and what can we do about it?Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2026Review
- Epidemiology, diagnosis and emerging therapies for Lyme disease of the Northern Hemisphere.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026Review
- Project ITCH: cross-sectional surveys to understand residential vector control attitudes and practices across New England.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Willingness to pay for residential property-based and community-based tick control methods in Lyme disease-endemic areas of the Upper Midwest, United States.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2025Article
- Microbiome variation between male and female Hyalomma dromedarii ticks from camels in the UAE.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A scoping review of applied tick control research in North America: funding, implementation, and advancement.Journal of medical entomology · 2025Article
- One Health, many approaches: integrated vector management strategies support One Health goals.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- The impact of climate change on ecology of tick associated with tick-borne diseases.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Interventions for the control of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and tick vectors.NPJ vaccines · 2024Review
- Modeling platform to assess the effectiveness of single and integrated Ixodes scapularis tick control methods.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Willingness and capacity of publicly-funded vector control programs in the USA to engage in tick management.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Willingness and ability of existing mosquito control and public health agencies in New Jersey to assume responsibilities for management of ticks and tick-borne disease.Journal of medical entomology · 2024Article
- Hard Ticks as Vectors: The Emerging Threat of Tick-Borne Diseases in India.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Human Tick-Borne Diseases and Advances in Anti-Tick Vaccine Approaches: A Comprehensive Review.Vaccines · 2024Review
- Allergic reactions associated with medically relevant arthropods.Annals of medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Numerous studies have assessed the efficacy of environmentally based control methods to suppress populations of the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say), but few of these estimated the cost of control. We estimated costs for a range of tick control methods (including habitat management, deer exclusion or population reduction, broadcast of acaricides, and use of host-targeted acaricides) implemented singly or in combination and applied to a model community comprising 320 residential properties and parklands. Using the high end for cost ranges, tick control based on a single method was estimated to have mean annual costs per household in the model community ranging from $132 for treating only forest ecotone with a broadcast synthetic acaricide to kill host-seeking ticks (or $404 for treating all residential forested habitat) to >$2,000 for deployment of bait boxes (SELECT TCS) across all residential tick habitat to treat rodents topically with acaricide to kill infesting ticks. Combining different sets of multiple methods in an integrated tick management program placed the annual cost between $508 and 3,192 annually per household in the model community, underscoring the disconnect between what people in Lyme disease endemic areas say they are willing to pay for tick control (not more than $100-150 annually) and the actual costs for tick control. Additional barriers to implementing community-based tick management programs within residential communities are discussed.
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