Lyme Disease and Forest Fragmentation in the Peridomestic Environment

Over the last 20 years, Lyme disease has grown to become the most common vector-borne disease affecting Americans. Spread in the eastern U.S. primarily by the bite of Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick, the disease affects an estimated 329,000 Americans per year. Originally confined to New Eng...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Telionis, Pyrros A.
Other Authors: Geography
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99281