Invasion of two tick-borne diseases across New England: Harnessing human surveillance data to capture underlying ecological invasion processes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1832, 2016, Pages

  Walter, Katharine S ^a   Pepin, Kim M ^b,c   Webb, Colleen T ^c,d   Gaff, Holly D ^e   Krause, Peter J ^a   Pitzer, Virginia E ^a,c   Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^a,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesiosis; Invasion; Lyme disease; Occupancy model; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LYME DISEASE; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

IXODIDA;

ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; PIROPLASMOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NEW ENGLAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84971569665     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0834     Document Type: Article

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