title: Methods to Prevent Tick Bites and Lyme Disease.
abstract: Current approaches for prevention of tick bites, Lyme disease, and other tick-borne diseases are described. Particular attention is paid to 4 risk-reduction strategies: (i) avoiding risk areas; (ii) personal protective measures that reduce the risk of tick bites or transmission of the agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi; (iii) reducing the number of infected ticks in the environment; and (iv) use of prophylactic antibiotic treatments following a bite to prevent clinical Lyme disease.
authors.affiliation: National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 3200 Sicotte, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 7C6, Canada. Electronic address: nicholas.ogden@phac-aspc.gc.ca.
authors.forename: Nick H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Ogden
authors.affiliation: National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3R2, Canada.
authors.forename: L Robbin
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Lindsay
authors.affiliation: Communicable Disease Control Program, Force Health Protection, Department of National Defence, 1745 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K6, Canada.
authors.forename: Steven W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Schofield
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010572:Pest Control, Biological / Q000379:methods; D064927:Tick Bites / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013987:Ticks; D014611:Vaccination
keywords: Ixodes pacificus; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; Personal protection; Repellent