Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Veterinary Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(2), P. 114 - 114
Published: Feb. 2, 2025
Ticks and tick-borne diseases significantly impact animal health, public economic productivity globally, particularly in areas where the wildlife–livestock interface complicates management. This review critically examines current control strategies, focusing on chemical, biological, physical, integrated pest management (IPM) approaches. Chemical acaricides, while effective, are increasingly challenged by resistance development environmental concerns. Biological approaches, including natural predators entomopathogenic fungi, physical interventions, such as habitat modification, provide sustainable alternatives but require further optimization. IPM stands out most promising long-term solution, integrating multiple approaches to enhance efficacy reducing risks. Emerging innovations, nanotechnology-enhanced acaricides next-generation vaccines, offer avenues for improved tick control. Addressing complex challenges of requires tailored interdisciplinary collaboration, sustained research investment both veterinary health contexts.
Language: Английский
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Zoonoses and Public Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Jan. 16, 2025
Humans acquire tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) from infected ticks contacted during outdoor activities. Outdoor activity is at its highest in urban green spaces, where the presence of tick populations has increasingly been observed. Consequently, more insight into factors influencing therein needed. Here, we assess occurrence and several TBPs spaces Finland, estimate related human hazard how landscape features influence TBP therein. Ticks collected five cities 2019-2020 were utilised. Borrelia, Rickettsia, Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia TBEV screened using qPCR. Various calculated utilised generalised linear mixed models to their contribution towards spaces. Finally, population density proximate each study site was used create population-weighted risk indices. Borrelia most common detected, with 22% nymphs 43% adults infected. Increasing forest cover had a positive effect on densities adults, whereas size negative effect. Middling percentages artificial surfaces predicted higher nymph than low or high values. Human estimates highly varied, even within cities. A correlation observed between total city are commonplace Finland. Enzootic cycles for Rickettsia appear be well maintained cities, leading widespread infection Our results suggest that forests medium size, small large show reduced densities. Green roughly similar can found different sizes, emphasising identification areas particularly important effective mitigation actions.
Language: Английский
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Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(5), P. 314 - 314
Published: April 26, 2025
Vegetation changes in savanna ecosystems are playing an increasingly important role shaping tick populations and the spread of tick-borne diseases, with consequences for both wildlife livestock health. This study examines how factors such as climate variability, land use, vegetation structures, host availability influence survival, distribution, behavior. As grasslands degrade woody plants become more dominant, ticks finding suitable habitats, often supported by microclimatic conditions that favor their development. At same time, increased contact between domestic wild animals is facilitating transmission pathogens. review highlights seasonal patterns, fire regimes, grazing pressure, change driving shifts activity expanding geographical range. These increase risk disease humans alike. Addressing these challenges calls integrated management strategies include control, population monitoring, sustainable vector control methods. A holistic approach connects ecological, animal, human health perspectives essential effective prevention long-term ecosystem management.
Language: Английский
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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(1), P. 102396 - 102396
Published: Sept. 16, 2024
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease (TBD) in Germany. In Bavaria, average annual incidence of reported cases was 34.3 per 100,000 inhabitants between 2013 and 2020, although case numbers were presumed to be substantially higher. Since no vaccine against LB currently available, prevention focuses on individual protection measures. This study aims address knowledge, attitudes, behaviours among cases, a population group at increased exposure ticks, tick bites repeated infections. We invited Bavarian weeks 23 35 2019 participate questionnaire study. Questions included socio-demographic characteristics, experiences with TBDs, potential exposures, details recent episode LB, regarding TBDs Among 377 participants, 300 adults/adolescents, 77 children (<14 years). Two third resided rural areas. Although mostly well informed, significant proportion participants did not know or misinformed about availability repellents (48.5 %), risk their district (24.9 ticks falling from trees (22.1 %) non-availability vaccination (20.9 %). Even though majority perceived checking for after spending time outdoors, wearing long clothes, closed shoes tucking pants socks as effective measures bites, much lower applied those frequently (proportions vs. applied: 99.2 % 72.1%; 93.8 40.2 %, 88.8 51.1 85.4 16.8 respectively). Identified lack knowledge misconception factors, behaviour may hamper application recommended There appeared discrepancy effectiveness frequency Addressing identified gaps education campaigns, specifically targeting people living areas, utilising physician-patient interactions are promising entry points increase awareness prevent TBDs. Moreover, motivators barriers preventive should subject future studies.
Language: Английский
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Microorganisms, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(9), P. 1918 - 1918
Published: Sept. 20, 2024
This study reveals a significant presence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in urban recreational areas Tallinn, Estonia. During the period May–June 2018, 815 Ixodes were collected from an area 11,200 m2 using flagging method. Tick density reached up to 18.8 per 100 m2, indicating high concentration these green spaces. Pathogen analysis demonstrated that 34% infected with at least one pathogen. Specifically, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., causative agent Lyme borreliosis, was detected 17.4% ticks; Rickettsia spp. 13.5%; Neoehrlichia mikurensis 5.5%; miyamotoi 2.6%; Anaplasma phagocytophilum encephalitis virus 0.5% each. These findings indicate prevalence abundance environments are comparable or even exceed those observed natural endemic areas. Given increasing incidence borreliosis Central Northern Europe, risk tick bites subsequent infection sites should not be underestimated. Public health measures, including enhanced awareness precautionary information, essential mitigate diseases settings.
Language: Английский
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9(11), P. 254 - 254
Published: Oct. 24, 2024
Ticks are vectors of public health concern because the pathogens they transmit can cause detrimental diseases in humans. Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted encephalitis, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic and babesiosis some most common caused by transmitted ticks. The overlap between activities tick habitats is growing, contributing to an increase disease cases. Unfortunately, pregnancy as a risk factor for largely ignored. In this narrative review we use case reports, epidemiological studies, animal studies evaluate maternal, pregnancy, fetal outcomes during pregnancy.
Language: Английский
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Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
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