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Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA)
Between March 2014 and February 2017, host-seeking ticks were collected during the late spring and summer months seasonally, and as well as continually through all seasons from several sites in a periurban environment in Pittsburg, Kansas, located in the Central Midwestern United States. All three p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33891636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250272 |
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author | Hroobi, Ali Boorgula, Gunavanthi D. Gordon, David Bai, Jianfa Goodin, Doug Anderson, Gary Wilson, Savannah Staggs, Alex Raghavan, Ram K. |
author_facet | Hroobi, Ali Boorgula, Gunavanthi D. Gordon, David Bai, Jianfa Goodin, Doug Anderson, Gary Wilson, Savannah Staggs, Alex Raghavan, Ram K. |
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description | Between March 2014 and February 2017, host-seeking ticks were collected during the late spring and summer months seasonally, and as well as continually through all seasons from several sites in a periurban environment in Pittsburg, Kansas, located in the Central Midwestern United States. All three post-emergent life-stages of Amblyomma americanum, and the adults of three other ticks viz. Dermacentor variabilis, A. maculatum, and Ixodes scapularis were collected using the flagging method, and were taxonomically identified using morphological and molecular methods. A total of 15946 ticks were collected from these sites. A vast majority of the ticks collected over the three-year study period was A. americanum (79.01%). The three other species collected included D. variabilis (13.10%), A. maculatum (7.15%), and Ixodes scapularis (0.73%). More female ticks of each species were collected throughout the study period from all sites, and a unimodal activity period was noted for all four species. The diversity, composition, and phenology of these medically significant tick species are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-80645312021-05-04 Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) Hroobi, Ali Boorgula, Gunavanthi D. Gordon, David Bai, Jianfa Goodin, Doug Anderson, Gary Wilson, Savannah Staggs, Alex Raghavan, Ram K. PLoS One Research Article Between March 2014 and February 2017, host-seeking ticks were collected during the late spring and summer months seasonally, and as well as continually through all seasons from several sites in a periurban environment in Pittsburg, Kansas, located in the Central Midwestern United States. All three post-emergent life-stages of Amblyomma americanum, and the adults of three other ticks viz. Dermacentor variabilis, A. maculatum, and Ixodes scapularis were collected using the flagging method, and were taxonomically identified using morphological and molecular methods. A total of 15946 ticks were collected from these sites. A vast majority of the ticks collected over the three-year study period was A. americanum (79.01%). The three other species collected included D. variabilis (13.10%), A. maculatum (7.15%), and Ixodes scapularis (0.73%). More female ticks of each species were collected throughout the study period from all sites, and a unimodal activity period was noted for all four species. The diversity, composition, and phenology of these medically significant tick species are discussed. Public Library of Science 2021-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8064531/ /pubmed/33891636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250272 Text en © 2021 Hroobi et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hroobi, Ali Boorgula, Gunavanthi D. Gordon, David Bai, Jianfa Goodin, Doug Anderson, Gary Wilson, Savannah Staggs, Alex Raghavan, Ram K. Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title | Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title_full | Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title_fullStr | Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title_full_unstemmed | Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title_short | Diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the Central Midwest (USA) |
title_sort | diversity and seasonality of host-seeking ticks in a periurban environment in the central midwest (usa) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33891636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250272 |
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