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Population genetic structure of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis at an apparent spatial expansion front.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2014
Kelly Rebecca R, Gaines David, Gilliam Will F, Brinkerhoff R Jory
Abstract excerpt
Modeling and empirical evidence suggests that Lyme disease is undergoing geographic expansion from principal foci in the midwestern and northeastern United States. Virginia is at the southern edge of the current expansion zone and has seen dramatic rise in human Lyme disease cases since 2007, potentially owing to a recent increase in vector abundance. Ixodes scapularis is known throughout the eastern US but...
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