Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

Ixodes scapularis (the blacklegged tick) was considered a species of no medical concern
until the mid-1970s. By that time, the tick's geographic distribution was thought to be mainly …

The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, is the primary vector to humans in the eastern
United States of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, as well as causative …

Lyme disease has increased both in incidence and geographic extent in the United States
and Canada over the past two decades. One of the underlying causes is changes during the …

The twin concepts of zooprophylaxis and the dilution effect originated with vector-borne
diseases (malaria), were driven forward by studies on Lyme borreliosis and have now …

The population ecology of ticks is fundamental to the spatial and temporal variation in the
risk of infection by tick-borne pathogens. Tick population dynamics can only be fully …

Wildlife vertebrate hosts are integral to enzootic cycles of tick-borne pathogens, and in some
cases have played key roles in the recent rise of ticks and tick-borne diseases in North …

Since the discovery of the Lyme disease spirochete in North America in 1982 and in Europe
in 1983, a plethora of studies on this unique group of spirochetes that comprise Borrelia …

Lyme disease is common in the northeastern United States, but rare in the southeast, even
though the tick vector is found in both regions. Infection prevalence of Lyme spirochetes in …

Determining patterns of host use, and the frequency at which these patterns change, are of
key importance if we are to understand tick population dynamics, the evolution of tick …