A national crowdsourcing-based tick collection campaign was organized in 2015 with the objective of producing novel data on tick distribution and tick-borne pathogens in Finland. Nearly 20 000 Ixodes ticks were collected. The collected material revealed the nationwide distribution of I. persulcatus for the first time and a shift northwards in the distribution of I. ricinus in Finland. A subset of 2038 tick samples containing both species was screened for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the prevalence was 14.2% for I. ricinus and 19.8% for I. persulcatus), B. miyamotoi (0.2% and 0.4%, respectively) and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV; 0.2% and 3.0%, respectively). We also report new risk areas for TBEV in Finland and, for the first time, the presence of B. miyamotoi in ticks from mainland Finland. Most importantly, our study demonstrates the overwhelming power of citizen science in accomplishing a collection effort that would have been impossible with the scientific community alone.

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:2015年组织了一次全国性的基于众包的tick收集运动,目的是在芬兰收集有关tick分布和tick传播病原体的新数据。收集了近20 000个I极x。收集到的材料首次揭示了Persulcatus的全国分布,而芬兰的I. ricinus的分布向北偏移。筛选了包含这两种物种的2038个滴答样本的子集,以检出伯氏疏螺旋体(流行度为:蓖麻毒杆菌为14.2%,百日咳杆菌为19.8%),宫本芽孢杆菌(分别为0.2%和0.4%)和壁虱-传染性脑炎病毒(TBEV;分别为0.2%和3.0%)。我们还报告了在芬兰TBEV的新风险领域,以及首次在芬兰大陆的壁虱中出现了宫本芽孢杆菌。最重要的是,我们的研究表明,公民科学在完成收集工作方面具有压倒性的力量,而这是仅凭科学界就不可能做到的。

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