Assessing tick attachments to humans with citizen science data: spatio-temporal mapping in Switzerland from 2015 to 2021 using spatialMaxent

Assessing tick attachments to humans with citizen science data: spatio-temporal mapping in Switzerland from 2015 to 2021 using spatialMaxent

Abstract Background Ticks are the primary vectors of numerous zoonotic pathogens, transmitting more pathogens than any other blood-feeding arthropod. In the northern hemisphere, tick-borne disease cases in humans, such as Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis, have risen in recent years, and...

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Main Authors: Lisa Bald, Nils Ratnaweera, Tomislav Hengl, Patrick Laube, Jürg Grunder, Werner Tischhauser, Netra Bhandari, Dirk Zeuss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-01-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Citizen science
Lyme disease
Spatio-temporal mapping
spatialMaxent
Species distribution modeling
Switzerland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06636-4
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