Developing a temperature-driven map of the basic reproductive number of the emerging tick vector of Lyme disease, Ixodes scapularis, in Canada.

Author:

Wu, X, Duvvuri, VR, Lou, Y, Ogden, NH, Pelcat, Y, and Wu, J

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2013-02

Journal/Series title:

J Theor Biol

Volume:

319

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23206385

Abstract:

Using temperature normals smoothed by Fourier analysis to generate seasonal temperature-driven development rates and host biting rates, and a next generation matrix approach, the model was used to obtain values for the basic reproduction number (R(0)) for I. scapularis at locations in southern Canada where the tick is established and emerging.