Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in Southeastern Canada.

Author:

Bouchard, C, Leighton, PA, Beauchamp, G, Nguon, S, Trudel, L, Milord, F, Lindsay, LR, Bélanger, D, and Ogden, NH

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2013-03

Journal/Series title:

J Med Entomol

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URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23540128

Abstract:

Our study suggests that hunter-killed deer may be effective as sentinels for emerging areas of tick-borne anaplasmosis. They may have limited use as sentinels for early emerging I. scapularis tick populations and emerging Lyme disease risk.