ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Reconciling the Entomological Hazard and Disease Risk in the Lyme Disease System.
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- Assessing the impact of areal unit selection and the modifiable areal unit problem on associative statistics between cases of tick-borne disease and entomological indices.Journal of medical entomology · 2024Article
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- Host Contributions to the Force of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti Transmission Differ at Edges of and within a Small Habitat Patch.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- A Geographic Information System Approach to Map Tick Exposure Risk at a Scale for Public Health Intervention.Journal of medical entomology · 2022Article
- Exposure, hazard, and vulnerability all contribute to Schistosoma haematobium re-infection in northern Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Environmental Correlates of Lyme Disease Emergence in Southwest Virginia, 2005-2014.Journal of medical entomology · 2021Article
- Current and Future Spatiotemporal Patterns of Lyme Disease Reporting in the Northeastern United States.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Comparing the Climatic and Landscape Risk Factors for Lyme Disease Cases in the Upper Midwest and Northeast United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Landscape determinants of density of blacklegged ticks, vectors of Lyme disease, at the northern edge of their distribution in Canada.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Enhancement of Risk for Lyme Disease by Landscape Connectivity, New York, New York, USA.Emerging infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Citizen science informs human-tick exposure in the Northeastern United States.International journal of health geographics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Lyme disease (LD) is a commonly cited model for the link between habitat loss and/or fragmentation and disease emergence, based in part on studies showing that forest patch size is negatively related to LD entomological risk. An equivalent relationship has not, however, been shown between patch size and LD incidence (LDI). Because entomological risk is measured at the patch scale, while LDI is generally assessed in relation to aggregate landscape statistics such as forest cover, we posit that the contribution of individual patches to human LD risk has not yet been directly evaluated. We design a model that directly links theoretical entomological risk at the patch scale to larger-scale epidemiological data. We evaluate its predictions for relative LD risk in artificial landscapes with varying composition and configuration, and test its ability to predict countywide LDI in a 12-county region of New York. On simulated landscapes, we find that the model predicts a unimodal relationship between LD incidence and forest cover, mean patch size, and mean minimum distance (a measure of isolation), and a protective effect for percolation probability (a measure of connectivity). In New York, risk indices generated by this model are significantly related to countywide LDI. The results suggest that the lack of concordance between entomological risk and LDI may be partially resolved by this style of model.
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