Climate change influences on the annual onset of Lyme disease in the United States

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 615-622

  Monaghan, Andrew J ^a   Moore, Sean M ^b   Sampson, Kevin M ^a   Beard, Charles B ^c   Eisen, Rebecca J ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Climate change; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937737405     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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