Predicting tick presence by environmental risk mapping

• Main Authors: Arno eSwart (Author), Adolfo eIbañez-Justicia (Author), Jan eBuijs (Author), Sip evan Wieren (Author), Tim eHofmeester (Author), Hein eSprong (Author), Katsuhisa eTakumi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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...