Implications of climate change on the distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and risk for Lyme disease in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Feria Arroyo, Teresa P ^a   Castro Arellano, Ivan ^b   Gordillo Perez, Guadalupe ^c   Cavazos, Ana L ^a   Vargas Sandoval, Margarita ^d   Grover, Abha ^e   Torres, Javier ^c   Medina, Raul F ^f   De León, Adalberto A Pérez ^g   Esteve Gassent, Maria D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Climate change; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease risk map; Transboundary disease

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; GULF OF MEXICO; HABITAT; HOST; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; TRANSBOUNDARY REGION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 84899940784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-199     Document Type: Article

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