Environmental hazard of tick-borne diseases in urban and peri-urban sites in an endemic area of eastern France
Joke Stynen, Cathy Barthel, Armand Maul, Laurine Villeneuve, Nathalie Boulanger · 2026
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Description
Stynen and colleagues surveyed ticks in 2026 around Strasbourg in eastern France, a region where tick diseases are established. The tick Ixodes ricinus is well known in forests, but its presence in city parks is less studied. The team collected questing ticks, meaning ticks waiting on plants for a host, at eight sites: a botanical garden, four urban parks, and three peri-urban forests.
Well-kept urban parks showed low risk of tick bites and of the infections tested, including Lyme disease bacteria. Peri-urban alluvial forests, the wet woods along rivers, showed high risk, with dense young ticks and many infected ones. The authors warn that greener cities under climate change could raise tick risk if parks are not managed with it in mind. They recommend tailored park management and public awareness campaigns.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joke Stynen, Cathy Barthel, Armand Maul, Laurine Villeneuve, Nathalie Boulanger |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |