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Tracking ticks in Canada with digital images

Ticks capable of transmitting Lyme disease (LD) have been found in Quebec, Canada using the traditional specimen-based identification method, where submitted ticks are analyzed by the ‘gold standard’ method using a microscope. But now a study, published in Parasitology, demonstrates a novel approach to utilizing web-based submissions of digital images or photographs in tracking Ixodes scapularis ticks. [1]