Habitat Modeling of the Black-Legged Tick: Reducing the Risk of Lyme disease at a Military Installation in the United States

Thomas M Kollars
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Thomas M Kollars: Health Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

Current Trends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences, 2018, vol. 12, issue 2, 49-51

Abstract: The black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) is the principal vector of Lyme borreliosis in the eastern United States. Military personnel and their family members, working and living on military installations are at risk of Lyme borreliosis where this tick species occurs. A study was conducted to determine which habitat variables determined distribution and density of the black-legged tick at the Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA. Shrub density was found to be a significant predictor of the distribution and density of the black-legged tick at the Edgewood Area with higher resolution than previous published predicted models of the black-legged tick (1m2 p

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/CTBEB.2018.12.555834

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