The heat is on: Killing blacklegged ticks in residential washers and dryers to prevent tickborne diseases

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 958-963

  Nelson, Christina A ^a   Hayes, Catherine M ^b   Markowitz, Molly A ^b   Flynn, Jacqueline J ^c   Graham, Alan C ^d   Delorey, Mark J ^a   Mead, Paul S ^a   Dolan, Marc C ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d Vermont Agency of Agriculture   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Clothing; Ixodes scapularis; Tick borne disease prevention; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; COLD TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRYING TIME; FEMALE; HEAT TREATMENT; HEATING; HUMIDITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK CONTROL; TIME; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COLD; HEAT; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK BITE; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

WATER;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLOTHING; COLD TEMPERATURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; TICK BITES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; WATER;

EID: 84964749469     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2016.04.016     Document Type: Article

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