Integrated assessment of behavioral and environmental risk factors for lyme disease infection on Block Island, Rhode Island

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Finch, Casey ^a   Al Damluji, Mohammed Salim ^a,b   Krause, Peter J ^a   Niccolai, Linda ^a   Steeves, Tanner ^a   O'Keefe, Corrine Folsom ^a,c   Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Audubon Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; ISLANDS; LYME DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RHODE ISLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84897087551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084758     Document Type: Article

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