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Ixodes ricinus ticks removed from humans in Northern Europe: seasonal pattern of infestation, attachment sites and duration of feeding

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, December 2013
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Title
Ixodes ricinus ticks removed from humans in Northern Europe: seasonal pattern of infestation, attachment sites and duration of feeding
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-6-362
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Authors

Peter Wilhelmsson, Pontus Lindblom, Linda Fryland, Dag Nyman, Thomas GT Jaenson, Pia Forsberg, Per-Eric Lindgren

Abstract

The common tick Ixodes ricinus is the main vector in Europe of the tick-borne encephalitis virus and of several species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, which are the etiological agents of Lyme borreliosis. The risk to contract bites of I. ricinus is dependent on many factors including the behaviour of both ticks and people. The tick's site of attachment on the human body and the duration of tick attachment may be of clinical importance. Data on I. ricinus ticks, which were found attached to the skin of people, were analysed regarding potentially stage-specific differences in location of attachment sites, duration of tick attachment (= feeding duration), seasonal and geographical distribution of tick infestation in relation to age and gender of the tick-infested hosts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Hungary 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 125 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 19%
Researcher 25 19%
Student > Master 16 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 7 5%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 27 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 13%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 9 7%
Environmental Science 7 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 5%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 39 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2018.
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#4,538,919
of 22,738,543 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,000
of 5,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,123
of 306,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#32
of 220 outputs
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