Climate change and Ixodes tick-borne diseases of humans

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1665, 2015, Pages 1-11

  Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Brunner, Jesse L ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Disease ecology; Global climate change; Lyme disease; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGEN; RANGE EXPANSION; TICK;

IXODES; IXODIDA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; IXODES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; IXODES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84923018437     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0051     Document Type: Article

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