Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1722, 2017, Pages

  Millins, Caroline ^a,b   Gilbert, Lucy ^c   Medlock, Jolyon ^d,e   Hansford, Kayleigh ^d   Thompson, Des Ba ^f   Biek, Roman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health Public Health England   (United Kingdom)

^f SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation management; Ixodes; Lyme borreliosis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HEALTH RISK; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; TICK; VERTEBRATE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CERVIDAE; IXODES; IXODIDA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIOTA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 85018713459     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0123     Document Type: Review

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