Department of Medical Entomology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr;28(14):17000-17028. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-13102-6. Epub 2021 Feb 28.
There are many studies that provide information regarding ticks infesting humans. However, there is no a meta-analysis about the global ranks of tick infestation rates and records, global monthly tick bites and annually and periodically trends of tick infestation rates, and the global tick infestation rates among years, mounts, regions, and countries. The study provides new insights about the above objectives in a global context and therefore performed. After a preliminary review of the 610 papers representing objective areas, 241 were selected for detailed meta-analysis. In general, the global ranks of tick species were, respectively, between 0.01-85.4% and 1-53 for human infestation rates and records. Twenty-six and sixteen tick species have more than 10% and 10 records of human tick infestation rates and records, respectively. It seems these tick species tend to be more blood-feeding on humans and as a result can be more dangerous to humans. The outcome of study demonstrated that there is no difference between seasonal human tick infestation patterns in the northern and southern hemispheres. The most global monthly mean tick bites in humans were observed in June then followed in July, August, May, and September. The global annually and periodically trends of tick infestation rates in humans exhibited decreasing trends over the past decades suggesting the preventive measure to prohibit human tick infestation have been successful. It seems that the ranks of tick infestation rates and records in humans may be as two indexes to illustrate the degree of importance of tick infesting humans.
有许多研究提供了有关寄生人体的蜱的信息。然而，目前尚无关于全球蜱类寄生率排名和记录、全球每月蜱叮咬次数以及蜱类寄生率的年际和周期性趋势、以及全球不同年份、地区和国家的蜱类寄生率的元分析。该研究在全球范围内对上述目标进行了新的分析，并进行了这项研究。在对代表目标领域的 610 篇论文进行初步审查后，选择了 241 篇进行详细的元分析。一般来说，蜱种的全球排名分别为 0.01-85.4%和 1-53 之间，用于表示人体寄生率和记录。有 26 种和 16 种蜱分别有超过 10%和 10 次的人体蜱寄生率和记录。这些蜱种似乎更倾向于吸食人类血液，因此对人类可能更危险。研究结果表明，南北半球人体蜱寄生模式无季节差异。全球每月平均人类蜱叮咬数最高的月份是 6 月，其次是 7 月、8 月、5 月和 9 月。过去几十年，人类蜱类寄生率的全球年际和周期性趋势呈下降趋势，这表明防止人类蜱类寄生的预防措施已取得成功。似乎人体蜱类寄生率和记录的排名可以作为两个指标来说明蜱类寄生人体的重要程度。
