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An analysis of historical data on Lyme borreliosis in Central Bohemia between 1987–2010 has revealed that the rate of peri-domestic exposure, the proximity of patients’ residences to high-risk habitats, and the number of disease cases have been interdependent variables and that their common upturn can be dated back to the start of the 1990s or earlier. The data indicate that the disease rise is attributable to translocation of part of the at-risk population nearer to natural environments, rather than to mere intensification of people’s peri-domestic exposure at existing residential locations, or changes in the natural environment itself.
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The satellite map of LB habitats utilised in this study had been elaborated under the project No. 4385-3 financed by the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health of the CZ, and the PECO Programme (Contract No. ERB-CIPDCT940264) – EU Concerted Action ‘Risk Assessment in Lyme Borreliosis’.
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Zeman, P., Benes, C. & Markvart, K. Increasing Residential Proximity of Lyme Borreliosis Cases to High-Risk Habitats: A Retrospective Study in Central Bohemia, the Czech Republic, 1987–2010. EcoHealth 12, 519–522 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-015-1016-5
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