Rapid Emergence of a Focal Epidemic of Lyme Disease in Coastal Massachusetts
- 19 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (3) , 133-137
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198901193200301
Abstract
We describe a focal epidemic of Lyme disease, which spread from a nature preserve and affected an adjacent community of permanent residents in coastal Massachusetts. The attack rate from 1980 through 1987 was 35 percent among 190 residents living within 5 km of the nature preserve and was greatest (66 percent) among those living closest to the preserve. The risk of infection bore little relation to sex or age.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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