Predicting spatio-temporal population patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen.

ABSTRACT: The causative bacterium of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, expanded from an undetected human pathogen into the etiologic agent of the most common vector-borne disease in the United States over the last several decades. Systematic field collections of the tick vector reveal increases in the geographic range and prevalence of B. burgdorferi-infected ticks that coincided with increases in human Lyme disease incidence across New York State.We investigate the impact of environmental features on the population dynamics of B. burgdorferi. Analytical models developed using field collections of nearly 19,000 nymphal Ixodes scapularis and spatially and temporally explicit environmental features accurately explained the variation in the nymphal infection prevalence of

SUBMITTER: Tran T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826398 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature