Geographic expansion of lyme disease in the Southeastern United States, 2000-2014

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Lantos, Paul M ^a   Nigrovic, Lise E ^b   Auwaerter, Paul G ^c   Fowler, G ^a   Ruffin, Felicia ^a   Brinkerhoff, R Jory ^d,e   Reber, Jodi ^f   Williams, Carl ^f   Broyhill, James ^g   Pan, William K ^a,h   Gaines, David N ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^g VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; GIS; Lyme disease; North Carolina; Virginia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85014352849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv143     Document Type: Article

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