Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 18, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18157980
Keywords
tick; distribution zoonoses; collaboration; detection; OneHealth
Funding
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) [ROAR-0000000026]
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [S1076]
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Between March 2019 and February 2020, Asian long-horned ticks were discovered for the first time in one middle and seven eastern Tennessee counties, facilitated by a newly developed passive and collaborative tick-surveillance network. Specimens were primarily collected from dogs and cattle, with initial county tick detections confirmed through morphological and molecular identification but tested negative for animal-associated pathogens. This surveillance collaboration involved federal, state, county, university, and private resource personnel working with companion animals, livestock, and wildlife.
Between March 2019 and February 2020, Asian long-horned ticks (Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, 1901) were discovered and collected for the first time in one middle and seven eastern Tennessee counties, facilitated by a newly developed passive and collaborative tick-surveillance network. Network collaborators included federal, state, county, university, and private resource personnel working with companion animals, livestock, and wildlife. Specimens were collected primarily from dogs and cattle, with initial detections of female adult stage ticks by stakeholders associated with parasitology positions (e.g., entomologists and veterinary parasitologists). Initial county tick detections were confirmed with morphological and molecular identifications, and then screened for the presence of animal-associated pathogens (Anaplasma marginale, Babesia species, Ehrlichia species, and Theileria orientalis), for which all tests were negative. Herein, we describe the identification and confirmation of these tick specimens as well as other results of the surveillance collaboration.
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