title: GIS and Remote Sensing Use in the Exploration of Lyme Disease Epidemiology.
abstract: Given the relatively recent recognition of Lyme disease (LD) by CDC in 1990 as a nationally notifiable infectious condition, the rise of reported human cases every year argues for a better understanding of its geographic scope. The aim of this inquiry was to explore research conducted on spatiotemporal patterns of Lyme disease in order to identify strategies for implementing vector and reservoir-targeted interventions. The focus of this review is on the use of GIS-based methods to study populations of the reservoir hosts, vectors and humans in addition to the spatiotemporal interactions between these populations. New GIS-based studies are monitoring occurrence at the macro-level, and helping pinpoint areas of occurrence at the micro-level, where spread within populations of reservoir hosts, clusters of infected ticks and tick to human transmission may be better understood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA. eozdenrl@memphis.edu.
authors.forename: Esra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozdenerol
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D017753:Ecosystem; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D062305:Geographic Mapping; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008377:Maps as Topic; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology; D013987:Ticks
keywords: Lyme disease; geographic distribution; risk modeling; spatiotemporal pattern; tick habitat