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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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Table 1

Characteristics of participants for the 24 residential neighborhoods together and for the 6 neighborhoods in each of the 4 treatment groups of tick-control interventions, New York, USA*

Characteristic Overall Neither active Active Met52 Active bait boxes Both active
No. neighborhoods 24 6 6 6 6
Mean no. human participants per neighborhood 97 (+ 19) 110 (+ 13) 94 (+ 26) 94 (+ 13) 90 (+ 18)
Mean no. outdoor pets per neighborhood 30 (+ 8) 26 (+ 9) 33 (+ 9) 29 (+ 5) 31 (+ 10)
Average median age of human participants, y 49 (+ 5) 48 (+ 4) 51 (+ 3) 48 (+ 6) 49 (+ 6)
Per capita no. preventive behaviors 1.27 (+ 0.27) 1.20 (+ 0.35) 1.37 (+ 0.27) 1.27 (+ 0.24) 1.27 (+ 0.24)
Self-reported cases of diagnosed TBDs per capita before study onset, 2011–2016 0.07 (+ 0.03) 0.05 (+ 0.02) 0.07 (+ 0.03) 0.07 (+ 0.02) 0.07 (+ 0.05)

*Data on age, previous cases of TBDs, and preventive behaviors were self-reported on the introductory survey administered during 2016–2017. Data on the number of participants and pets who spent time outside were averaged over the length of the study. Values in parentheses represent the standard error of the mean. TBDs, tickborne diseases.

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

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