| Autor: |
Millins, Caroline, Leo, Walter, MacInnes, Isabell, Ferguson, Johanne, Charlesworth, Graham, Nayar, Donald, Davison, Reece, Yardley, Jonathan, Kilbride, Elizabeth, Huntley, Selene, Gilbert, Lucy, Viana, Mafalda, Johnson, Paul, Biek, Roman |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| ISSN: |
1080-6040 |
| Popis: |
Lyme disease is usually associated with forested habitats but has recently emerged on treeless islands in the Western Isles of Scotland. The environmental and human components of Lyme disease risk in open habitats remain unknown. We quantified the environmental hazard and risk factors for human tick bite exposure among treeless islands with low and high Lyme disease incidence in the Western Isles. We found a higher prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato–infected ticks on high-incidence than on low-incidence islands (6.4% vs. 0.7%); we also found that residents of high-incidence islands reported increased tick bite exposure. Most tick bites (72.7%) occurred |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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