High-throughput screening for tick-borne pathogens in Ixodid ticks collected through crowdsourcing in northern Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ticks are expanding in the northern hemisphere. Along with them, tick-borne pathogens can be introduced into new geographical areas and cause infection and disease in animals and humans. Monitoring the expansion of tick populations is challenging and in large areas such as northern Sweden it can be beneficial to take advantage of citizen science. Therefore, people living in northern Sweden were asked to submit ticks collected from their pets or from themselves during the tick seasons of 2018 (north of river Dalälven; n = 1087) and 2019 (from the four northernmost Swedish provinces; n = 514). Ticks were identified at the species level and further analysed with a microfluidic technique to detect carried tick-borne pathogens. Forty-eight PCR assays targeting an array of tic

SUBMITTER: Grandi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12931012 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature