TY  - JOUR
T1  - EMerging tick-borne diseases expand range along with rebounding deer populations
AU  - Kuehn BM
Y1  - 2013/01/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.116881
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 124
EP  - 125
VL  - 309
IS  - 2
N2  - 
Lyme disease remains the most common tickborne illness in the United States, with about 20 000 to 30 000 cases identified each year. But babesiosis, which is caused by the protozoan parasite Babesia microti, has received renewed attention as its range has expanded. Once known as “Nantucket fever” because it was common among individuals living—along with a robust population of deer, a key vector—on that New England coastal island, it is now considered endemic in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.116881
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.116881
ER  -