A spatially-explicit model of acarological risk of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes pacificus nymphs in northwestern California based on woodland type, temperature, and water vapor

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-43

  Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Eisen, Lars ^b   Girard, Yvette A ^c   Fedorova, Natalia ^c   Mun, Jeomhee ^d   Slikas, Beth ^e   Leonhard, Sarah ^c   Kitron, Uriel ^f   Lane, Robert S ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Health   (United States)

^e BLOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; California; Ixodes pacificus; Lyme borreliosis; Spatial risk model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; WATER VAPOR;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NYMPH; RISK FACTORS; STEAM; TEMPERATURE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONIFEROPHYTA; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS;

EID: 77949308250     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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