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

Author:

Guillot, C, Bouchard, C, Buhler, K, Pelletier, R, Milord, F, and Leighton, PA

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2023-02

Journal/Series title:

Can Commun Dis Rep

Volume:

Issue:

2-3

URL:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10715827/

Abstract:

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.