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Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022
Research

Effects of Tick-Control Interventions on Tick Abundance, Human Encounters with Ticks, and Incidence of Tickborne Diseases in Residential Neighborhoods, New York, USA

Felicia Keesing1Comments to Author , Stacy Mowry, William Bremer, Shannon Duerr, Andrew S. Evans, Ilya R. Fischhoff, Alison F. Hinckley, Sarah A. Hook, Fiona Keating, Jennifer Pendleton, Ashley Pfister, Marissa Teator, and Richard S. Ostfeld1
Author affiliations: Bard College, Annandale, New York, USA (F. Keesing); Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, USA (S. Mowry, W. Bremer, S. Duerr, I.R. Fischhoff, F. Keating, J. Pendleton, A. Pfister, M. Teator, R.S. Ostfeld); Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA (A.S. Evans Jr.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (A.F. Hinckley, S.A. Hook)

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Mean per capita human and pet encounters with ticks and cumulative numbers of cases per neighborhood of tick-borne diseases for humans and pets in study of tick-control interventions, New York, USA. A) Human encounters; B) pet encounters; C) self-reported human cases; D) pet cases. Data represent the mean of the cumulative value (+ SEM) over the 4 years of treatments (2017–2020), averaged across neighborhoods in a treatment group. Note that the scale of the y-axes differs. TCS, Tick Control System.

Figure 4. Mean per capita human and pet encounters with ticks and cumulative numbers of cases per neighborhood of tick-borne diseases for humans and pets in study of tick-control interventions, New York, USA. A) Human encounters; B) pet encounters; C) self-reported human cases; D) pet cases. Data represent the mean of the cumulative value (+ SEM) over the 4 years of treatments (2017–2020), averaged across neighborhoods in a treatment group. Note that the scale of the y-axes differs. TCS, Tick Control System.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article and were co-principal investigators.

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