Community engaged tick surveillance and tickMAP as a public health tool to track the emergence of ticks and tick-borne diseases in New York.

A community engaged passive surveillance program was utilized to acquire ticks and associated information throughout New York state. Ticks were speciated and screened for several tick-borne pathogens. Of these ticks, only I. scapularis was commonly infected with pathogens of human relevance, includi...

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Main Authors: Charles E Hart, Jahnavi Reddy Bhaskar, Erin Reynolds, Meghan Hermance, Martin Earl, Matthew Mahoney, Ana Martinez, Ivona Petzlova, Allen T Esterly, Saravanan Thangamani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000215