Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control

Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom

(2017) Caroline Millins et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conservation of biodiversity as a strategy for improving human health and well-being

(2017) A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Epidemiological Implications of Host Biodiversity and Vector Biology: Key Insights from Simple Models

(2016) Andrew D. M. Dobson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Quantifying dilution and amplification in a community of hosts for tick-borne pathogens

(2016) Taal Levi et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effectiveness of Residential Acaricides to Prevent Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases in Humans

(2016) Alison F. Hinckley et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Evidence for Personal Protective Measures to Reduce Human Contact With Blacklegged Ticks and for Environmentally Based Control Methods to Suppress Host-Seeking Blacklegged Ticks and Reduce Infection with Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Tick Vectors and Rodent Reservoirs

(2016) Lars Eisen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

County-Scale Distribution ofIxodes scapularisandIxodes pacificus(Acari: Ixodidae) in the Continental United States

(2016) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetaemia: a descriptive study

(2016) Bobbi S Pritt et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Invasion of two tick-borne diseases across New England: harnessing human surveillance data to capture underlying ecological invasion processes

(2016) Katharine S. Walter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary Aspects of Emerging Lyme Disease in Canada

(2015) N. H. Ogden et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An Examination of the Demographic and Environmental Variables Correlated with Lyme Disease Emergence in Virginia

(2015) Sara E. Seukep et al.   EcoHealth

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease

(2015) Paul S. Mead   INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Linkages of Weather and Climate WithIxodes scapularisandIxodes pacificus(Acari: Ixodidae), Enzootic Transmission ofBorrelia burgdorferi, and Lyme Disease in North America

(2015) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Effect of climate change on vector-borne disease risk in the UK

(2015) Jolyon M Medlock et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Threshold levels of generalist predation determine consumer response to resource pulses

(2015) Taal Levi et al.   OIKOS

Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming

(2015) T. Levi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans

(2015) R. S. Ostfeld et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Estimating Reservoir Competence ofBorrelia burgdorferiHosts: Prevalence and Infectivity, Sensitivity, and Specificity

(2015) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Different Populations of Blacklegged Tick Nymphs Exhibit Differences in Questing Behavior That Have Implications for Human Lyme Disease Risk

(2015) Isis M. Arsnoe et al.   PLoS One

No Observed Effect of Landscape Fragmentation on Pathogen Infection Prevalence in Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in the Northeastern United States

(2015) Christine P. Zolnik et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Landscape Fragmentation and Climate on Lyme Disease Incidence in the Northeastern United States

(2014) Phoebe Minh Tran et al.   EcoHealth

Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence ofBorrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution

(2014) Julie A. Simon et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Reservoir Targeted Vaccine Against Borrelia burgdorferi: A New Strategy to Prevent Lyme Disease Transmission

(2014) L. M. Richer et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Adverse moisture events predict seasonal abundance of Lyme disease vector ticks (Ixodes scapularis)

(2014) Kathryn A Berger et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Comparison of survival patterns of northern and southern genotypes of the North American tick Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) under northern and southern conditions

(2014) Howard S Ginsberg et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Integrated Assessment of Behavioral and Environmental Risk Factors for Lyme Disease Infection on Block Island, Rhode Island

(2014) Casey Finch et al.   PLoS One

The Phenology of Ticks and the Effects of Long-Term Prescribed Burning on Tick Population Dynamics in Southwestern Georgia and Northwestern Florida

(2014) Elizabeth R. Gleim et al.   PLoS One

Flagging versus dragging as sampling methods for nymphalIxodes scapularis(Acari: Ixodidae)

(2013) Eric L. Rulison et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

Does high biodiversity reduce the risk of Lyme disease invasion?

(2013) Catherine Bouchard et al.   Parasites & Vectors

An Experimental Test of Competition among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments

(2013) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   PLoS One

Research on the ecology of ticks and tick-borne pathogens—methodological principles and caveats

(2013) Agustín Estrada-Peña et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States

(2012) Maria A. Diuk-Wasser et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Geographic Variation in the Relationship between Human Lyme Disease Incidence and Density of Infected Host-Seeking Ixodes scapularis Nymphs in the Eastern United States

(2012) Kim M. Pepin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

What Do We Need to Know About Disease Ecology to Prevent Lyme Disease in the Northeastern United States?: Table 1.

(2012) Rebecca J. Eisen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm

(2012) S. E. RANDOLPH et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

(2012) T. Levi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity and disease: a synthesis of ecological perspectives on Lyme disease transmission

(2012) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Impacts of an Introduced Forest Pathogen on the Risk of Lyme Disease in California

(2012) Andrea Swei et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Transovarial transmission of Borrelia spirochetes by Ixodes scapularis: A summary of the literature and recent observations

(2012) Lindsay Rollend et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Borrelia burgdorferi RST1 (OspC Type A) Genotype Is Associated with Greater Inflammation and More Severe Lyme Disease

(2011) Klemen Strle et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

Reservoir Competence of Various Rodents for the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia spielmanii

(2011) Dania Richter et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Lyme Disease Vaccine—A Public Health Perspective

(2011) Angela K. Shen et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Wolves–coyotes–foxes: a cascade among carnivores

(2011) Taal Levi et al.   ECOLOGY

A modified matrix model to describe the seasonal population ecology of the European tick Ixodes ricinus

(2011) Andrew D. M. Dobson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Modelling the effects of recent changes in climate, host density and acaricide treatments on population dynamics of Ixodes ricinus in the UK

(2011) Andrew D. M. Dobson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Molting Success of Ixodes scapularis Varies Among Individual Blood Meal Hosts and Species

(2011) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Lyme borreliosis

(2011) Gerold Stanek et al.   LANCET

Impact of the experimental removal of lizards on Lyme disease risk

(2011) A. Swei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Globalization, Land Use, and the Invasion of West Nile Virus

(2011) A. M. Kilpatrick   SCIENCE

Absence of Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Larval Ixodes ricinus Ticks

(2011) Dania Richter et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Updates on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex with respect to public health

(2011) Nataliia Rudenko et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Community ecology and disease risk: lizards, squirrels, and the Lyme disease spirochete in California, USA

(2010) Daniel J. Salkeld et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of an invasive forest pathogen on abundance of ticks and their vertebrate hosts in a California Lyme disease focus

(2010) Andrea Swei et al.   OECOLOGIA

Peridomestic Lyme Disease Prevention

(2009) Neeta P. Connally et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Population Structure of the Lyme Borreliosis Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the Western Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus) in Northern California

(2009) Y. A. Girard et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Managing Japanese Barberry (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) Infestations Reduces Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Abundance and Infection Prevalence WithBorrelia burgdorferi(Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

(2009) Scott C. Williams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Habitat Selection of a Large Herbivore at High Density and Without Predation: Trade-off between Forage and Cover?

(2009) Ariane Massé et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Effect of Prescribed Fire for Tick Control in California Chaparral

(2009) K. A. Padgett et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Feeding Preferences of the Immature Stages of Three Western North American Ixodid Ticks (Acari) for Avian, Reptilian, or Rodent Hosts

(2009) Ted J. Slowik et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phylogeography of Borrelia burgdorferi in the eastern United States reflects multiple independent Lyme disease emergence events

(2009) A. G. Hoen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hosts as ecological traps for the vector of Lyme disease

(2009) F. Keesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evaluation of the United States Department of Agriculture Northeast Area-Wide Tick Control Project by Meta-Analysis

(2009) Brandon Brei et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Effects of Tick Control by Acaricide Self-Treatment of White-Tailed Deer on Host-Seeking Tick Infection Prevalence and Entomologic Risk for Ixodes scapularis-Borne Pathogens

(2009) Anne Gatewood Hoen et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

IMPACT OF HOST COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ON LYME DISEASE RISK

(2008) Kathleen LoGiudice et al.   ECOLOGY

MULTIPLE CAUSES OF VARIABLE TICK BURDENS ON SMALL-MAMMAL HOSTS

(2008) Jesse L. Brunner et al.   ECOLOGY

MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi

(2008) G. Margos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Risk maps for range expansion of the Lyme disease vector, Ixodes scapularis, in Canada now and with climate change

(2008) Nicholas H Ogden et al.   International Journal of Health Geographics

Prevention of Tick-Borne Diseases

(2007) Joseph Piesman et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic

(2007) D. Brisson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES