Alvaro Toledo

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew Bickerton |JULIA GONZÁLEZ |Julia Gonzalez |Alvaro Toledo

Introduction The longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, is an invasive tick species (Acari: Ixodidae) native to eastern Asia that is present in Australasia and in parts of eastern and central United States and with the potential to spread throughout most of the eastern United States and along the Pacific Coast (Hoogstraal et al., 1968; Raghavan et al., 2019; Rochlin et al., 2023).

Jun 27, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew Bickerton |Julia González |Andrea M. Egizi |Alvaro Toledo

Research Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/ps.7631.

Mar 5, 2023 | mdpi.com | Julia González |Alvaro Toledo |Dina M. Fonseca

1. IntroductionTick-borne diseases continue to be a public health concern in the USA as the number of cases has increased in recent years [1,2]. The ongoing expansion of Ixodes scapularis Say and the increase in abundance of Amblyomma americanum (L.) throughout the Northeast and upper Midwest, as well as the recent detection of the invasive tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, underscores the risk of tick-borne diseases in the northeastern USA [1,3,4].