Modeling the effects of reservoir competence decay and demographic turnover in lyme disease ecology

Abstract excerpt

Lyme disease risk is related to the abundance of infected nymphal ticks, which in turn depends on the abundance and reservoir competence of wild hosts. Reservoir competence of a host (i.e., probability that an infected host will infect a feeding vector) often declines over time after inoculation, and small mammalian reservoirs typically undergo rapid population growth during the period when vector ticks feed. Thes...

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• Borrelia burgdorferi
• Clutch Size
• Disease Reservoirs
• Host Specificity
• Litter Size
• Vector-borne infectious diseases
• Viral Infections and Vectors
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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Literature Corpus work

e410fef6-4059-534b-9343-705e7c4562ab

DOI

10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1142:mteorc]2.0.co;2