Landscape predictors of tick-borne encephalitis in Latvia: Land cover, land use, and land ownership

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 497-506

  Vanwambeke, Sophie O ^a   Šumilo, Dana ^b   Bormane, Antra ^c   Lambin, Eric F ^a   Randolph, Sarah E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Health Agency   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Borne encephalitis; Land cover; Land ownership; Land use; Landscape; Spatial regression; Tick

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOREST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LATVIA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; TIME; TREE;

IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LATVIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TICKS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 77954197606     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0116     Document Type: Article

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