[HTML][HTML] Comparison of Lyme disease in the United States and Europe

AR Marques, F Strle, GP Wormser - Emerging infectious diseases, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lyme disease, or Lyme borreliosis, is the most common tickborne disease in the United
States and Europe. In both locations, Ixodes species ticks transmit the Borrelia burgdorferi …

Ecological niche models and species distribution models in marine environments: A literature review and spatial analysis of evidence

SM Melo-Merino, H Reyes-Bonilla, A Lira-Noriega - Ecological Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of ecological niche models (ENMs) and species distribution models
(SDMs) to explore the patterns and processes behind observed distribution of species has …

kuenm: an R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent

ME Cobos, AT Peterson, N Barve, L Osorio-Olvera - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in
diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The …

Impact of land use changes and habitat fragmentation on the eco-epidemiology of tick-borne diseases

MA Diuk-Wasser, MC VanAcker… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of tick-borne diseases has increased in recent decades and accounts for the
majority of vector-borne disease cases in temperate areas of Europe, North America, and …

Possible effects of climate change on ixodid ticks and the pathogens they transmit: Predictions and observations

NH Ogden, C Ben Beard, HS Ginsberg… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The global climate has been changing over the last century due to greenhouse gas
emissions and will continue to change over this century, accelerating without effective global …

[HTML][HTML] Health care provider knowledge regarding alpha-gal syndrome—United States, March–May 2022

A Carpenter - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023 - cdc.gov
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an emerging, tick bite–associated immunoglobulin E–
mediated allergic condition characterized by a reaction to the oligosaccharide galactose …

Climate Changes Exacerbate the Spread of Ixodes ricinus and the Occurrence of Lyme Borreliosis and Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe—How Climate Models Are …

C Voyiatzaki, SI Papailia, MS Venetikou… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change has influenced the transmission of a wide range of vector-borne diseases in
Europe, which is a pressing public health challenge for the coming decades. Numerous …

Likely geographic distributional shifts among medically important tick species and tick-associated diseases under climate change in North America: a review

A Alkishe, RK Raghavan, AT Peterson - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary North America is considered as an area likely to be significantly affected
by global warming, with climate change causing markedly warmer winter temperatures in …

An exhaustive analysis of heuristic methods for variable selection in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling

ME Cobos, AT Peterson, L Osorio-Olvera… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecological niche models and species distribution models are used in many fields of science.
Despite their popularity, only recently have important aspects of the modeling process like …

Tick saliva and the alpha-gal syndrome: finding a needle in a haystack

SR Sharma, S Karim - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ticks and tick-borne diseases are significant public health concerns. Bioactive molecules in
tick saliva facilitate prolonged blood-feeding and transmission of tick-borne pathogens to the …