Socio‐ecological drivers of multiple zoonotic hazards in highly urbanized cities

MA Combs, PA Kache, MC VanAcker… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of
pathogen spillover from wildlife to human hosts, particularly in densely populated urban …

One Biosecurity: A unified concept to integrate human, animal, plant, and environmental health

PE Hulme - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2020 - portlandpress.com
In the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the world has woken up to the importance of
biosecurity and the need to manage international borders. Yet strong sectorial identities …

The Role of Ticks in the Emergence of Borrelia burgdorferi as a Zoonotic Pathogen and Its Vector Control: A Global Systemic Review

S Hussain, A Hussain, U Aziz, B Song, J Zeb, D George… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ticks are widely distributed across the globe, serving as hosts for numerous pathogens that
make them major contributors to zoonotic parasitosis. Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection rates in questing and host-attached ticks: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

SN Karshima, MI Ahmed, CA Kogi, PS Iliya - Acta Tropica, 2022 - Elsevier
Anaplasma phagocytophilum causes a multi-organ non-specific febrile illness referred to as
human granulocytic anaplasmosis. The epidemiologic risk of the pathogen is …

Unintended consequences of planting native and non‐native trees in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change

J Moyano, RD Dimarco, J Paritsis, T Peterson… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Naturally treeless ecosystems are being replaced by native and non‐native trees worldwide,
often through deliberate afforestation using forestry tree species. By introducing species …

Human Borrelia miyamotoi Infection in North America

J Burde, EM Bloch, JR Kelly, PJ Krause - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging pathogen that causes a febrile illness and is transmitted
by the same hard-bodied (ixodid) ticks that transmit several other pathogens, including …

Understanding invasive plant management on family forestlands: An application of protection motivation theory

M Clarke, Z Ma, SA Snyder, EP Hennes - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Invasive forest plants are a growing concern because of their perceived and actual negative
ecological, economic, and social impacts. To effectively manage invasive plants in forest …

Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi and diversity of its outer surface protein C (ospC) alleles in blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in Delaware

SA Shifflett, T Wiedmeyer, A Kennedy… - Ticks and tick-borne …, 2023 - Elsevier
Characterizing the diversity of genes associated with virulence and transmission of a
pathogen across the pathogen's distribution can inform our understanding of host infection …

Assessing the current and potential future distribution of four invasive forest plants in Minnesota, USA, using mixed sources of data

JR Reinhardt, MB Russell, S Senay, W Lazarus - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Invasive plants are an ongoing subject of interest in North American forests, owing to their
impacts on forest structure and regeneration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. An …

Invasive woody plants as foci of tick-borne pathogens: eastern redcedar in the southern Great Plains

BH Noden, EP Tanner, JA Polo, SD Fuhlendorf - Journal of Vector Ecology, 2021 - BioOne
Habitat preference and usage by disease vectors are directly correlated with landscapes
often undergoing anthropogenic environmental change. A predominant type of land use …