Ticking Time Bomb? Climate Change and Ixodes scapularis
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Publication type:
Journal Article
Publication date:
2014-06
Journal/Series title:
Environ Health Perspect
Volume:
122
Issue:
6
Abstract:
Evidence is mounting that, on its northern front, the expanding range of Lyme disease is driven by climate change; warming temperatures allow new populations of the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis, to establish themselves in regions that were once too cold.