Laaksonen Maija, Sajanti Eeva, Sormunen Jani J, Penttinen Ritva, Hänninen Jari, Ruohomäki Kai, Sääksjärvi Ilari, Vesterinen Eero J, Vuorinen Ilppo, Hytönen Jukka, Klemola Tero
Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku FI-20014, Finland.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Turku FI-20520, Finland.
Emerg Microbes Infect. 2017 May 10;6(5):e31. doi: 10.1038/emi.2017.17.
A national crowdsourcing-based tick collection campaign was organized in 2015 with the objective of producing novel data on tick distribution and tick-borne pathogens in Finland. Nearly 20 000 Ixodes ticks were collected. The collected material revealed the nationwide distribution of I. persulcatus for the first time and a shift northwards in the distribution of I. ricinus in Finland. A subset of 2038 tick samples containing both species was screened for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the prevalence was 14.2% for I. ricinus and 19.8% for I. persulcatus), B. miyamotoi (0.2% and 0.4%, respectively) and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV; 0.2% and 3.0%, respectively). We also report new risk areas for TBEV in Finland and, for the first time, the presence of B. miyamotoi in ticks from mainland Finland. Most importantly, our study demonstrates the overwhelming power of citizen science in accomplishing a collection effort that would have been impossible with the scientific community alone.
2015年组织了一场基于众包的全国性蜱虫采集活动，目的是获取有关芬兰蜱虫分布和蜱传病原体的新数据。共采集了近20000只硬蜱。所采集的样本首次揭示了全沟硬蜱在芬兰的全国分布情况，以及蓖麻硬蜱在芬兰的分布向北转移。对包含这两个物种的2038份蜱虫样本进行了莱姆病螺旋体（蓖麻硬蜱的患病率为14.2%，全沟硬蜱为19.8%）、伯氏疏螺旋体（分别为0.2%和0.4%）和蜱传脑炎病毒（TBEV；分别为0.2%和3.0%）的筛查。我们还报告了芬兰TBEV的新风险区域，并且首次在芬兰大陆的蜱虫中发现了伯氏疏螺旋体。最重要的是，我们的研究证明了公民科学在完成一项仅靠科学界无法完成的采集工作方面所具有的巨大力量。
