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SUBMITTER: Rau A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7400118 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rau Austin A Munoz-Zanzi Claudia C Schotthoefer Anna M AM Oliver Jonathan D JD Berman Jesse D JD
International journal of environmental research and public health 20200715 14
Lyme disease is a well-recognized public health problem in the USA, however, other tick-borne diseases also have major public health impacts. Yet, limited research has evaluated changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of non-Lyme tick-borne diseases within endemic regions. Using laboratory data from a large healthcare system in north-central Wisconsin from 2000-2016, we applied a Kulldorf's scan statistic to analyze spatial, temporal and seasonal clusters of laboratory-positive cases of hum ...[more]