Climate, Deer, Rodents, and Acorns as Determinants of Variation in Lyme-Disease Risk
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Summary
It is concluded that interannual variation in entomological risk of exposure to Lyme disease is correlated positively with prior abundance of key hosts for the immature stages of the tick vector and with critical food resources for those hosts.
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- article
- Published
- 2006-05-09
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- 505
- References
- 64
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- Open access
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Keywords
Biology, Odocoileus, Peromyscus, Ixodes scapularis, Lyme disease
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