Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic.

Abstract excerpt

Emerging zoonotic pathogens are a constant threat to human health throughout the world. Control strategies to protect public health regularly fail, due in part to the tendency to focus on a single host species assumed to be the primary reservoir for a pathogen. Here, we present evidence that a diverse set of species can play an important role in determining disease risk to humans using Lyme disease as a model....

Topics

• Animals
• Antigens, Bacterial
• Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
• Borrelia burgdorferi
• Disease Outbreaks
• Disease Reservoirs
• Genotype
• Humans
• Lyme Disease
• Models, Biological
• New York