Species Distribution Models and Ecological Suitability Analysis for Potential Tick Vectors of Lyme Disease in Mexico
| Autor: | Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez, Sahotra Sarkar, Griselda Montiel-Parra, Blake Sissel, Phillip C. Williamson, Chissa-Louise Rivaldi, Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Ángel Rodríguez-Moreno, Patricia Illoldi-Rangel, Víctor Sánchez-Cordero |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Article Subject biology lcsh:RC955-962 Ecology Species distribution General Medicine Tick biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Microbiology Amblyomma cajennense Taxon Geography Lyme disease Vector (epidemiology) Suitability analysis medicine Parasitology Ixodes Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Tropical Medicine, Vol 2012 (2012) Journal of Tropical Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1687-9694 1687-9686 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2012/959101 |
| Popis: | Species distribution models were constructed for tenIxodesspecies andAmblyomma cajennensefor a region including Mexico and Texas. The model was based on a maximum entropy algorithm that used environmental layers to predict the relative probability of presence for each taxon. For Mexico, species geographic ranges were predicted by restricting the models to cells which have a higher probability than the lowest probability of the cells in which a presence record was located. There was spatial nonconcordance between the distributions ofAmblyomma cajennenseand theIxodesgroup with the former restricted to lowlands and mainly the eastern coast of Mexico and the latter to montane regions with lower temperature. The risk of Lyme disease is, therefore, mainly present in the highlands where someIxodesspecies are known vectors; ifAmblyomma cajennenseturns out to be a competent vector, the area of risk also extends to the lowlands and the east coast. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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