Determinants of the geographic distribution of Puumala virus and Lyme borreliosis infections in Belgium.

Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases generally display clear spatial patterns due to different space-dependent factors. Land cover and land use influence disease transmission by controlling both the spatial distribution of vectors or hosts, and the probability of contact with susceptible human populations. The objective of this study was to combine environmental and socio-economic factors to explain the spatial distribution of two emerging human diseases in Belgium, Puumala virus (PUUV) and Lyme borreliosis. Municipalities were taken as units of analysis. ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Linard, Catherine
Lamarque, Pénélope
Heyman, Paul
Ducoffre, Geneviève
Luyasu, Victor
Tersago, Katrien
Vanwambeke, Sophie O
Lambin, Eric F
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Schlagwörter: Systèmes d'information géographique / Epidémiologie / Géographie humaine / Animals / Arachnid Vectors / Belgium -- epidemiology / Borrelia burgdorferi / Communicable Diseases / Emerging -- epidemiology / Demography / Environment / Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome -- epidemiology / Humans / Linear Models / Lyme Disease -- epidemiology / Multivariate Analysis / Poisson Distribution / Puumala virus / Risk-Taking / Socioeconomic Factors / Topography / Medical / Zoonoses -- epidemiology
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/150097

Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases generally display clear spatial patterns due to different space-dependent factors. Land cover and land use influence disease transmission by controlling both the spatial distribution of vectors or hosts, and the probability of contact with susceptible human populations. The objective of this study was to combine environmental and socio-economic factors to explain the spatial distribution of two emerging human diseases in Belgium, Puumala virus (PUUV) and Lyme borreliosis. Municipalities were taken as units of analysis. ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H. Extramural ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published