Changes in the geographical distribution and abundance of the tick Ixodes ricinus during the past 30 years in Sweden
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- 10 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Parasites & Vectors
- Vol. 5 (1), 8-15
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-8
Abstract
Ixodes ricinus is the main vector in Europe of human-pathogenic Lyme borreliosis (LB) spirochaetes, the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and other pathogens of humans and domesticated mammals. The results of a previous 1994 questionnaire, directed at people living in Central and North Sweden (Svealand and Norrland) and aiming to gather information about tick exposure for humans and domestic animals, suggested that Ixodes ricinus ticks had become more widespread in Central Sweden and the southern part of North Sweden from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. To investigate whether the expansion of the tick's northern geographical range and the increasing abundance of ticks in Sweden were still occurring, in 2009 we performed a follow-up survey 16 years after the initial study.Keywords
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