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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Dispatch

Increasing Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto–Infected Blacklegged Ticks in Tennessee Valley, Tennessee, USA

Graham J. HicklingComments to Author , Janetta R. Kelly, Lisa D. Auckland, and Sarah A. Hamer
Author affiliations: University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA (G.J. Hickling, J.R. Kelly); Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (L.D. Auckland, S.A. Hamer)

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Six-year trend in adult Ixodes scapularis tick counts at Forest Resources Research and Education Center (36.00°N, 84.22°W; elevation 298 m), Anderson County, Tennessee, USA, 2012−2017. We collected host-seeking I. scapularis adult ticks by drag-cloth sampling vegetation on a 1,050-m transect of mixed hardwood forest once each December.

Figure 2. Six-year trend in adult Ixodes scapularis tick counts at Forest Resources Research and Education Center (36.00°N, 84.22°W; elevation 298 m), Anderson County, Tennessee, USA, 2012−2017. We collected host-seeking I. scapularis adult ticks by drag-cloth sampling vegetation on a 1,050-m transect of mixed hardwood forest once each December.

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