Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city: Role of landscape connectivity and green space characteristics in a metropolitan area.
Borrelia burgdorferi s.l
Ixodes ricinus
Landscape connectivity
Urban
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Jun 2019
20 Jun 2019
Historique:
received:
02
02
2019
revised:
14
03
2019
accepted:
15
03
2019
pubmed:
29
3
2019
medline:
2
5
2019
entrez:
29
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Green spaces in the city are important for human wellbeing, but are also zones in which humans can become infected with zoonotic diseases. Therefore, there is a need to understand how infection risk is related to green space characteristics, wildlife communities and connectivity with rural areas hosting reservoir populations of hosts. Our hypothesis is that wildlife hosts in urban green spaces, and thereby the prevalence of questing ticks and their Lyme disease causing pathogens (Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.), can be partly predicted based on green space characteristics as well as measures of connectivity to known source areas. We sampled ticks in twenty-two green spaces during Spring (2014 and 2016) and Autumn 2016, located along an urbanization gradient in Antwerp (Belgium). More than 18,000 m
Identifiants
pubmed: 30921726
pii: S0048-9697(19)31227-6
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.235
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
941-949Informations de copyright
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