206 Survey of field rodents, ticks and zoonotic agents in Tsushima

Preliminary research on the relationship between tick and deer abundance on Tsushima Islands, western Japan

“…Eleven species of ticks have been recorded on the Tsushima Islands from 1954 to 2021 (Fujita et al, 1996;Kobayashi et al, 2021;Kodama et al, 2021;Saito, 1976;Takada et al, 2001;Tateno et al, 2013). However, because these studies were either fragmentary records of the number of ticks collected or were focused on the prevalence of tick-borne pathogens, no quantitative assessment has been conducted that would demonstrate spatial variation in tick abundance on the islands.…”