Continuing increase of tick bites and Lyme disease between 1994 and 2009

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 69-74

  Hofhuis, Agnetha ^a   Harms, Margriet ^a   van den Wijngaard, Cees ^a   Sprong, Hein ^a   van Pelt, Wilfrid ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Erythema migrans; General population; Incidence; Lyme borreliosis; Tick bites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BITE; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TICK BITES;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TICK BITES;

EID: 84924283076     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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