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.