Tick collection OH4Surveillance 2025

Occurrence
Latest version published by Swedish Veterinary Agency on May 13, 2026 Swedish Veterinary Agency
Publication date:
May 13, 2026
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Ticks collected by flagging in northern Sweden. The collection and speciation was financed by the EU funded project OH4Surveillance.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Omazic A (2026). Tick collection OH4Surveillance 2025. Version 1.1. Swedish Veterinary Agency. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=vector_data_tick&v=1.1

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Veterinary Agency. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 228dc47a-0fc7-463a-9c60-afa4389b7fcf.  Swedish Veterinary Agency publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Anna Omazic
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Swedish Veterinary Agency
751 89 Uppsala
SE

Geographic Coverage

Coastal area and archipelago of Norrbotten, Sweden.

Bounding Coordinates South West [65.481, 22.734], North East [65.818, 24.145]

Taxonomic Coverage

All ticks were collected and were speciated as Ixodes persulcatus.

Genus Ixodes (hard tick)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period May 2025

Project Data

No Description available

Title OH4Surveillance
Identifier OH4Surveillance
Funding OH4Surveillance is co-funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No 101132473)

The personnel involved in the project:

Anna Omazic

Sampling Methods

Flagging

Study Extent The collection was carried out in May 2025.

Method step description:

  1. Ticks were collected in tubes and were later speciated by PCR.

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Purpose
Maintenance Description The collection will continue for one more year.
Alternative Identifiers 228dc47a-0fc7-463a-9c60-afa4389b7fcf
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=vector_data_tick