Risk of tick-borne pathogen spillover into urban yards in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The incidence of tick-borne disease has increased dramatically in recent decades, with urban areas increasingly recognized as high-risk environments for exposure to infected ticks. Green spaces may play a key role in facilitating the invasion of ticks, hosts and pathogens into residential areas, particularly where they connect residential yards with larger natural areas (e.g. parks). However, the factors mediating tick distribution across heterogeneous urban landscapes remain poorly characterized.

Methods

Using generalized linear models in a multimodel inference framework, we determined the residential yard- and local landscape-level features associated with the presence of three tick species of current and growing public health importance in residential yards acr

SUBMITTER: Gregory N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365221 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature