Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Contrasting emergence of Lyme disease across ecosystems

  • Atle Mysterud,
  • William Ryan Easterday,
  • Vetle Malmer Stigum,
  • Anders Bjørnsgaard Aas,
  • Erling L. Meisingset,
  • Hildegunn Viljugrein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11882
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Environmental change is thought to have driven the recent emergence of Lyme disease in Europe. Using a decade of human disease incidence data across a large area in Norway, Mysterud et al.show that incidence correlates with deer population, but that deer population plays a limited role in recent disease emergence.