Lyme disease risk influences human settlement in the wildland-urban interface: Evidence from a longitudinal analysis of counties in the northeastern United States

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 747-755

  Larsen, Ashley E ^a   MacDonald, Andrew J ^a   Plantinga, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INCOME; LAND USE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MORBIDITY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; WILDERNESS; ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; INCIDENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ENGLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84907701178     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0181     Document Type: Article

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