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SUBMITTER: Larsen AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4183398 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140721 4
The expansion of human settlement into wildland areas, including forests in the eastern United States, has resulted in fragmented forest habitat that has been shown to drive higher entomological risk for Lyme disease. We investigated an alternative pathway between fragmentation and Lyme disease, namely whether increased risk of Lyme disease results in a reduced propensity to settle in high-risk areas at the interface of developed and undeveloped lands. We used longitudinal data analyses at the c ...[more]