Human risk to tick encounters in the southeastern United States estimated with spatial distribution modeling.

• Main Authors: Rebecca A Butler (Author), Mona Papeş (Author), James T Vogt (Author), Dave J Paulsen (Author), Christopher Crowe (Author), Rebecca T Trout Fryxell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Expanding geographic distribution and increased populations of ticks has resulted in an upsurge of human-tick encounters in the United States (US), leading to an increase in tickborne disease reporting. Limited knowledge of the broadscale spatial range of tick species is heightened by a rapidly chan...