A tick on a green leaf. Photo.
The study is a good example of how public health risks can be assessed by collaborating with pet owners to obtain samples from companion animals. Applying a One Health approach in this way can expand surveillance capacity in sparsely populated countries such as Sweden. Photo: Holger Krisp, Wikimedia Commons.*

Ticks in northern Sweden – what diseases do they carry?

Page reviewed:  10/06/2026

By working with animal owners, researchers have collected ticks from northern Sweden. The approach provides greater opportunities to assess public health risks associated with tick-borne diseases.

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Link to the scientific publication

Grandi, G., Han, S., Ullman, K. et al. High-throughput screening for tick-borne pathogens in Ixodid ticks collected through crowdsourcing in northern Sweden. Acta Vet Scand 68, 14 (2026). 

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