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Max McClure and Maria Diuk-Wasser
Lyme disease (LD) is a commonly cited model for the link between habitat loss and/or fragmentation and disease emergence, based in part on studies showing that forest patch size is negatively related to LD entomological risk. An equivalent relationship h...
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Stephanie L. Richards, Ricky Langley, Charles S. Apperson and Elizabeth Watson
Improvements to risk assessments are needed to enhance our understanding of tick-borne disease epidemiology. We review tick vectors and duration of tick attachment required for pathogen transmission for the following pathogens/toxins and diseases: (1)
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Lilija Kovalchuka, Svetlana Cvetkova, Julija Trofimova, Jelena Eglite, Sandra Gintere, Irina Lucenko, Barbara Oczko-Grzesik, Ludmila Viksna and Angelika Krumina
The aim of this study was to determine the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles in two groups of patients in Latvia: patients with Lyme borreliosis and patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis. The study included 216 patients with Lyme borreliosis, 29 p...
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Lourdes Lledó, María Isabel Gegúndez, Consuelo Giménez-Pardo, Rufino Álamo, Pedro Fernández-Soto, María Sofia Nuncio and José Vicente Saz
This paper reports a 17-year seroepidemiological surveillance study of Borrelia burgdorferi infection, performed with the aim of improving our knowledge of the epidemiology of this pathogen. Serum samples (1,179) from patients (623, stratified with respe...
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