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Submissions from 2024

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Partial trailside Japanese barberry (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) removal did not reduce the abundance of questing blacklegged ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), Susan P. Elias, Peter W. Rand, Charles B. Lubelczyk, Melanie R. McVety, and Robert P. Smith

Submissions from 2023

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Review of Continuing Medical Education in Tick-Borne Disease for Front-Line Providers, Aaron C. Malkowski, Robert P. Smith, Douglas MacQueen, and Emily M. Mader

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Phylogeographic reconstruction of the emergence and spread of Powassan virus in the northeastern United States, Chantal B. Vogels, Doug E. Brackney, Alan P. Dupuis, Rebecca M. Robich, Joseph R. Fauver, Anderson F. Brito, Scott C. Williams, John F. Anderson, Charles B. Lubelczyk, Rachel E. Lange, Melissa A. Prusinski, Laura D. Kramer, Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann, Laura B. Goodman, Guy Baele, Robert P. Smith, Philip M. Armstrong, Alexander T. Ciota, Simon Dellicour, and Nathan D. Grubaugh

Submissions from 2022

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Use of Cervid Serosurveys to Monitor Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Activity in Northern New England, United States, 2009-2017, John-Paul Mutebi, Abigail A. Mathewson, Susan P. Elias, Sara Robinson, Alan C. Graham, Patti Casey, and Charles B. Lubelczyk

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Microclimate conditions alter Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) overwinter survival across climate gradients in Maine, United States, Michelle R. Volk, Charles B. Lubelczyk, Jason C. Johnston, Danielle L. Levesque, and Allison M. Gardner

Submissions from 2021

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Support for deer herd reduction on offshore Islands of Maine, U.S.A, Susan P. Elias, Peter W. Rand, Laura N. Rickard, Benjamin B. Stone, Kirk A. Maasch, Charles B. Lubelczyk, and Robert P. Smith

Submissions from 2017

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Seasonal Patterns in Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Antibody in Songbirds in Southern Maine., Susan P Elias, Patrick Keenan, Joan L Kenney, Sara R Morris, Kristen M Covino, Sara Robinson, Kimberly A Foss, Peter W Rand, Charles Lubelczyk, Eleanor H Lacombe, John-Paul Mutebi, David Evers, and Robert P Smith

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Management of arthropod pathogen vectors in North America: minimizing adverse effects on pollinators., Howard S Ginsberg, Timothy A Bargar, Michelle L Hladik, and Charles Lubelczyk

Submissions from 2014

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Detection of eastern equine encephalitis virus antibodies in moose (Alces americana), Maine, 2010., Charles Lubelczyk, Susan P Elias, Lee Kantar, Jennifer Albert, Stephen Hansen, Kali Saxton-Shaw, Katharine MacMillan, Leticia B Smith, Rebecca Eisen, Bethany Swope, Robert Pease Smith, and John-Paul Mutebi

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Parasitism of mustelids by ixodid ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A., Charles Lubelczyk, Eleanor H Lacombe, Susan P Elias, Lorenza Beati, Peter W Rand, and Robert P Smith

Submissions from 2013

Effect of a botanical acaricide on Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) and nontarget arthropods., Susan P Elias, Charles B Lubelczyk, Peter W Rand, Joseph K Staples, Theodore W St Amand, Constance S Stubbs, Eleanor H Lacombe, Leticia B Smith, and Robert P Smith

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An epizootic of eastern equine encephalitis virus, Maine, USA in 2009: outbreak description and entomological studies., Charles Lubelczyk, John-Paul Mutebi, Sara Robinson, Susan P Elias, Leticia B Smith, Sherrie A Juris, Kimberly Foss, Anne Lichtenwalner, Kirk J Shively, Donald E Hoenig, Lori Webber, Stephen Sears, and Robert P Smith

Submissions from 2010

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Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) infestation at two rural, seasonal camps in Maine and Vermont., C Lubelczyk, B K Cahill, T Hanson, J Turmel, E Lacombe, P W Rand, S P Elias, and R P Smith