Threat of attacks of Ixodes ricinus ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) and Lyme borreliosis within urban heat islands in south-western Poland

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Buczek, Alicja ^a   Ciura, Dariusz ^a   Bartosik, Katarzyna ^a   Zajac, Zbigniew ^a   Kulisz, Joanna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borreliosis; Environmental pollution; Ixodes ricinus; Tick abundance; Tick activity; Urban heat islands

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMAGO; INCIDENCE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN HEAD ISLAND; ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CITY; COMPLICATION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CITIES; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84964696463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0562-y     Document Type: Article

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