Predicting tick presence by environmental risk mapping

Predicting tick presence by environmental risk mapping

Public health statistics recorded an increasing trend in the incidence of tick bites and erythema migrans in the Netherlands. We investigated whether the disease incidence could be predicted by a spatially explicit categorization model, based on environmental factors and a training set of tick absen...

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Main Authors: Arno eSwart, Adolfo eIbañez-Justicia, Jan eBuijs, Sip evan Wieren, Tim eHofmeester, Hein eSprong, Katsuhisa eTakumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
Lyme Disease
Netherlands
Ticks
spatial modeling
Riskmap
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00238/full

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