Determinants of tick-borne encephalitis in counties of southern Germany, 2001-2008
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Health Geographics
- Vol. 9 (1) , 42
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072x-9-42
Abstract
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus can cause severe symptoms in humans. The incidence of this vector-borne pathogen in humans is characterised by spatial and temporal heterogeneity. To explain the variation in reported human TBE cases per county in southern Germany, we designed a time-lagged, spatially-explicit model that incorporates ecological, environmental, and climatic factors.Keywords
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