Estimated Effects of Projected Climate Change on the Basic Reproductive Number of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis

Author:

Ogden, NH, Radojević, M, Wu, X, Duvvuri, VR, and Leighton, PA

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2014-06

Journal/Series title:

Environ Health Perspectives

Volume:

122

Issue:

URL:

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307799/

Abstract:

We quantified potential effects of future climate change on the basic reproduction number (R0) of the tick vector of Lyme disease, Ixodes scapularis, and explored their importance for Lyme disease risk, and for vector-borne diseases in general.