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...
Main Authors: | Felicia Keesing, Emma Tilley, Stacy Mowry, Sahar Adish, William Bremer, Shannon Duerr, Andrew S Evans, Ilya R Fischhoff, Fiona Keating, Jennifer Pendleton, Ashley Pfister, Marissa Teator, Richard S Ostfeld |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293820 |
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