Spatial variation in risk for tick-borne diseases in residential areas of Dutchess County, New York
Although human exposure to the ticks that transmit Lyme-disease bacteria is widely considered to occur around people’s homes, most studies of variation in tick abundance and infection are undertaken outside residential areas. Consequently, the patterns of variation in risk of human exposure to tick-borne infections in these human-dominated landscapes are poorly understood. Here, we report the results of four years of sampling for tick abundance, tick infection, tick encounters, and tick-borne disease reports on residential properties nested within six neighborhoods in Dutchess County, New York... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | PLOS ONE ; volume 18, issue 11, page e0293820 ; ISSN 1932-6203 |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27448181 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293820 |