Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States

Lyme disease occurs in specific geographic regions of the United States. We present a method for defining high-risk counties based on observed versus expected number of reported human Lyme disease cases. Applying this method to successive periods shows substantial geographic expansion of counties at...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26196670
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2108.141878
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description Lyme disease occurs in specific geographic regions of the United States. We present a method for defining high-risk counties based on observed versus expected number of reported human Lyme disease cases. Applying this method to successive periods shows substantial geographic expansion of counties at high risk for Lyme disease.
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spelling pubmed-45177242015-08-01 Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Lyme disease occurs in specific geographic regions of the United States. We present a method for defining high-risk counties based on observed versus expected number of reported human Lyme disease cases. Applying this method to successive periods shows substantial geographic expansion of counties at high risk for Lyme disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4517724/ /pubmed/26196670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2108.141878 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title_full Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title_fullStr Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title_full_unstemmed Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title_short Geographic Distribution and Expansion of Human Lyme Disease, United States
title_sort geographic distribution and expansion of human lyme disease, united states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26196670
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2108.141878

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