Climate Changes Exacerbate the Spread of Ixodes ricinus and the Occurrence of Lyme Borreliosis and Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe-How Climate Models Are Used as a Risk Assessment Approach for Tick-Borne Diseases.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
; 19(11)2022 05 27.
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| ID: mdl-35682098
ABSTRACT
Climate change has influenced the transmission of a wide range of vector-borne diseases in Europe, which is a pressing public health challenge for the coming decades. Numerous theories have been developed in order to explain how tick-borne diseases are associated with climate change. These theories include higher proliferation rates, extended transmission season, changes in ecological balances, and climate-related migration of vectors, reservoir hosts, or human populations. Changes of the epidemiological pattern have potentially catastrophic consequences, resulting in increasing prevalence of tick-borne diseases. Thus, investigation of the relationship between climate change and tick-borne diseases is critical. In this regard, climate models that predict the ticks' geographical distribution changes can be used as a predicting tool. The aim of this review is to provide the current evidence regarding the contribution of the climatic changes to Lyme borreliosis (LB) disease and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and to present how computational models will advance our understanding of the relationship between climate change and tick-borne diseases in Europe.
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Assunto principal:
Doença de Lyme
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Doenças Transmitidas por Carrapatos
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Ixodes
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Encefalite Transmitida por Carrapatos
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Vírus da Encefalite Transmitidos por Carrapatos
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Animals
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Humans
País como assunto:
Europa
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En
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article