Lyme disease in outdoor workers: Risk factors, preventive measures, and tick removal methods

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 877-885

  Schwartz, Brian S ^a   Goldstein, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrella; Lyme disease; Lyme disease, prevention and control; Occupational diseases; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INSECT REPELLENT;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LYME DISEASE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEW JERSEY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025266614     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115578     Document Type: Article

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