Hart Charles E, Bhaskar Jahnavi Reddy, Reynolds Erin, Hermance Meghan, Earl Martin, Mahoney Matthew, Martinez Ana, Petzlova Ivona, Esterly Allen T, Thangamani Saravanan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.
SUNY Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022 Jun 27;2(6):e0000215. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000215. eCollection 2022.
A community engaged passive surveillance program was utilized to acquire ticks and associated information throughout New York state. Ticks were speciated and screened for several tick-borne pathogens. Of these ticks, only I. scapularis was commonly infected with pathogens of human relevance, including B. burgdorferi, B. miyamotoi, A. phagocytophilum, B. microti, and Powassan virus. In addition, the geographic and temporal distribution of tick species and pathogens was determined. This enabled the construction of a powerful visual analytical mapping tool, tickMAP to track the emergence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in real-time. The public can use this tool to identify hot-spots of disease emergence, clinicians for supportive evidence during differential diagnosis, and researchers to better understand factors influencing the emergence of ticks and tick-borne diseases in New York. Overall, we have created a community-engaged tick surveillance program and an interactive visual analytical tickMAP that other regions could emulate to provide real-time tracking and an early warning for the emergence of tick-borne diseases.
利用一个社区参与的被动监测项目在纽约州采集蜱虫及相关信息。对蜱虫进行分类并筛查多种蜱传病原体。在这些蜱虫中,只有肩突硬蜱通常感染与人类相关的病原体,包括伯氏疏螺旋体、米亚托伊疏螺旋体、嗜吞噬细胞无形体、微小巴贝斯虫和波瓦桑病毒。此外,还确定了蜱虫种类和病原体的地理及时间分布。这使得能够构建一个强大的可视化分析绘图工具tickMAP,以实时追踪蜱虫和蜱传病原体的出现情况。公众可以使用这个工具来识别疾病出现的热点地区,临床医生在鉴别诊断时可作为支持证据,研究人员则可以更好地了解影响纽约蜱虫和蜱传疾病出现的因素。总体而言,我们创建了一个社区参与的蜱虫监测项目和一个交互式可视化分析工具tickMAP,其他地区可以效仿,以提供蜱传疾病出现情况的实时追踪和早期预警。