| deer ticks, ixodes dammini (acari: ixodidae), and lyme disease spirochetes, borrelia burgdorferi, in maine. | | 1988 | 3404548 |
| role of bird migration in the long-distance dispersal of ixodes dammini, the vector of lyme disease. | to evaluate the role of migratory birds in the long-distance dispersal of ixodes dammini ticks and in the spread of lyme disease, a 6-year study of migrating birds to an offshore new england island was conducted during 1989-1994. i. dammini are not endemic on this island, therefore allowing assessment of long-distance tick dispersal rather than local infestation. of 11,324 spring migrants examined, 1.2% were infested with i. dammini. of 8607 fall migrants examined, 0.2% were infested. of nymphal ... | 1996 | 8656000 |
| abundance of ixodes scapularis (acari: ixodidae) after the complete removal of deer from an isolated offshore island, endemic for lyme disease. | monhegan is an isolated 237-ha island lying 16 km off the coast of maine. introduced to the island in 1955, white-tailed deer, odocoileus virginianus zimmerman, reached a density of approximately 37/km2 by the mid-1990s. black-legged ticks, ixodes scapularis say, first noticed in the late 1980s, flourished thereafter. norway rats (rattus norvegicus berkenhout) on monhegan are highly infected with borrelia burgdorferi johnson, schmidt, hyde, steigerwalt, and brenner, the agent of lyme disease. by ... | 2004 | 15311475 |
| strategies for reducing the risk of lyme borreliosis in north america. | the incidence of lyme borreliosis continues to increase in the united states. in 1991, when lyme borreliosis first became a nationally reportable disease to the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), a total of 9470 cases were reported; in contrast, by 2002 a total of 23,763 cases were reported, >2.5x the total in 1991. area-wide acaricides can be highly effective in killing nymphal ixodes scapularis, with >95% of nymphs killed in studies using cyfluthrin, deltamethrin, or carbaryl. t ... | 2006 | 16524769 |
| infection and co-infection rates of anaplasma phagocytophilum variants, babesia spp., borrelia burgdorferi, and the rickettsial endosymbiont in ixodes scapularis (acari: ixodidae) from sites in indiana, maine, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. | in total, 394 questing adult blacklegged ticks, ixodes scapularis say (acari: ixodidae), collected at four sites were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) for five microbial species: anaplasma phagocytophilum, babesia microti, babesia odocoilei, borrelia burgdorferi, and the rickettsial i. scapularis endosymbiont. identities of genetic variants of a. phagocytophilum were determined by sequencing a portion of the 16s dna. in 55% of infected ticks (193/351), a single agent was detected. in ... | 2008 | 18402145 |