Filling the Gap: Establishing a Statewide Tick and Tick-Borne Pathogen Surveillance Program
. Additional Rickettsiales detected included multiple Ehrlichia and Anaplasma species, with higher presence in the state's northern region. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto was detected in one questing Ixodes keiransi from the southern coastal region. The current report presents the initial steps for pathogen and tick species surveillance in South Carolina, providing successes and pitfalls as a model for other states and regions to establish similar efforts to improve national tick surveillance.
Authors
- Melissa S. Nolan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8579-5372)
- Emily Owens Pickle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1912-4183)
- Kyndall C. Dye‐Braumuller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7760-0464)
- Madeleine Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6879-7657)
- Jennifer G. Chandler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-1807)
- Lídia Gual-González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9459-3713)
- Chris L. Evans
- Rebecca T. Trout Fryxell
- Christopher Lee
Institutions
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (US)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- Clemson University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Insects
- Published
- 2026-04-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/insects17040414
- Primary Topic
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of South Carolina
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention