title: Study on Lyme borreliosis focus in the Lublin region (eastern Poland).
abstract: A suburban focus of Lyme borreliosis situated 11 km from the southern border of the city of Lublin (eastern Poland) was characterized. The focus covers an area of circa 100 km(2), surrounding 3 localities inhabited by circa 7,500 people engaged mostly in farming. It was demonstrated that on the area of focus the infection rate of Ixodes ricinus ticks with Borrelia burgdorferi, frequency of serological response of inhabitants to the antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi, and incidence of Lyme borreliosis were significantly (p<0.001) greater compared to the whole territory of Lublin province, and were respectively 13.1 % vs. 4.7 %, 33.0 % vs. 13.7 %, and 0.002 % vs. 0.00075 % .
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Biohazards, Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Jaczewskiego 2, Lublin, Poland. ewac@galen.imw.lublin.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cisak
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chmielewska-Badora
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zwoliński
authors.forename: Angelina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wojcik-Fatla
authors.forename: Violetta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zajac
authors.forename: Czesława
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Skórska
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dutkiewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood*; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology*; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009758:Nymph; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial