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Putting the puzzle pieces together:
assessing risk​ of human exposure to blacklegged ticks

​Poster presented at the Entomological Society of America 2022 Annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada

Sophia I. Chiaia, Victoria L. Hornbostel and Neeta P. Connally
Department of Biology, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT 06810

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Supplemental Figure​: Reported human activities associated with tick encounter. n=155.
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Selected References

Spielman, A., Wilson, M.L., Levine, J.F. and Piesman, J., 1985. Ecology of Ixodes dammini-borne human babesiosis and Lyme disease. Annual Review of Entomology 30: 439-460.
Mead, P.S., 2015. Epidemiology of Lyme disease. Infectious Disease Clinics 29: 187-210.
Piesman, J., Mather, T.N., Dammin, G.J., Telford III, S.R., Lastavica, C.C. and Spielman, A., 1987. Seasonal variation of transmission risk of Lyme disease and human babesiosis. American Journal of Epidemiology 126: 1187-1189.
Xu, G., Mather, T.N., Hollingsworth, C.S. and Rich, S.M., 2016. Passive surveillance of Ixodes scapularis (Say), their biting activity, and associated pathogens in Massachusetts. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 16: 520-527.


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