ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2024
The Role of Environmental Factors in Lyme Disease Transmission in the European Union: A Systematic Review.
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- Socioeconomic risk factors and human immunosuppressive conditions are major drivers of human leishmaniasis in southern Europe.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Risk Analysis from the Burden of Lyme Disease (BOLD) Study.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- High-throughput screening for tick-borne pathogens in Ixodid ticks collected through crowdsourcing in northern Sweden.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Scientist's Opinion on Climate Change and Hard Ticks (Ixodidae).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- UnmaskingInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Review
- Lyme Borreliosis Incidence Across Europe, 2015-2023: A Surveillance-Based Review and Analysis.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Predictive temperature-dependency of tick questing activity in France and relevance to Lyme disease risk in Connecticut.Experimental & applied acarology · 2025Article
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus: review of the biology, ecology, and disease associated with a historic tick-borne pathogen.Infectious diseases & immunity · 2025Review
- A dataset of the abundance ofBiodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- The Impact of Onchocerciasis Elimination Measures in Africa: A Systematic Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundLyme disease (LD) is an emergent vector-borne disease caused by MATERIALS AND
methodsA systematic review following the PRISMA guidelines was performed. We selected studies on LD transmission in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) published between 2000 and 2022. The protocol was registered in the PROSPERO database.
resultsWe included 81 studies. The impact of environmental, meteorological or climate change factors on tick vectors was studied in 65 papers (80%), and the impact on human LD cases was studied in 16 papers (19%), whereas animal hosts were only addressed in one study (1%). A significant positive relationship was observed between temperature and precipitation and the epidemiology of LD, although contrasting results were found among studies. Other positive factors were humidity and the expansion of anthropized habitats.
conclusionsThe epidemiology of LD seems to be related to climatic factors that are changing globally due to ongoing climate change. Unfortunately, the complete zoonotic cycle was not systematically analyzed. It is important to adopt a One Health approach to understand LD epidemiology.
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