Passive tick surveillance provides an accurate early signal of emerging lyme disease risk and human cases in Southern Canada

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1016-1026

  Ripoche, Marion ^a   Gasmi, Salima ^a,b   Adam Poupart, Ariane ^a,b   Koffi, Jules K ^a,c   Lindsay, L Robbin ^d   Ludwig, Antoinette ^a,c   Milord, François ^a,e   Ogden, Nicholas H ^a,c   Thivierge, Karine ^a,b,f   Leighton, Patrick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e Universitaires et Des Partenariats Professionnels   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entomological surveillance; Ixodes scapularis; Rick indicator; Vector borne disease; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCEDURES; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 85047533766     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: 19382928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy030     Document Type: Article

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