Exploratory Space-Time Analyses of Reported Lyme Borreliosis Cases in France, 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, the incidence of Lyme borreliosis (LB) in Europe seems to have increased, underpinning a growing public health concern. LB surveillance systems across the continent are heterogeneous, and the spatial and temporal patterns of LB reports have been little documented. In this study, we explored the spatio-temporal patterns of LB cases reported in France from 2016 to 2019, to describe high-risk clusters and generate hypotheses on their occurrence. The space-time K-function and the Kulldorf's scan statistic were implemented separately for each year to evaluate space-time interaction between reported cases and searching clusters. The results show that the main spatial clusters, of radius size up to 97 km, were reported in central and northeastern France each year. In 2017-2019,

SUBMITTER: Fu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8068173 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature