Quality over quantity in active tick surveillance: Sentinel surveillance outperforms risk-based surveillance for tracking tick-borne disease emergence in southern Canada

CONCLUSION: Where surveillance aims to document changes in tick-borne disease risk over time and space, we suggest that repeated sampling of carefully selected field sites may be most effective, while risk-based surveillance may be more usefully applied to confirm the presence of emerging disease risk in a specific region of interest or to identify suitable sites for long-term monitoring as LD and other tick-borne diseases continue to emerge.PMID:38090724 | PMC:PMC10715827

Source: Can Commun Dis Rep - December 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Camille Guillot Catherine Bouchard Kayla Buhler Roxane Pelletier Fran çois Milord Patrick Leighton Source Type: research