Article
An appraisal of health datasets to enhance the surveillance of Lyme disease in the United Kingdom
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease of increasing global public health interest. Clinical presentation is varied, posing challenges for case definition. Currently national incidence figures for the United Kingdom (UK) are derived from two-tier confirmatory laboratory diagnostic results. These figures have the potential to underestimate incidence as clinical cases managed without diagnostic investigation are unrec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fde1b44-830d-5017-a2ce-31d740bbab87
- DOI
- 10.17638/03046553
