Insights from the Geographic Spread of the Lyme Disease Epidemic

View Resource

Study examining the spread of pediatric lime disease in western Pennsylvania, comparing symptoms and provider types between rural and urban areas. Compiles interview data from 773 patients at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, discussing implications for public health responses to epidemics in rural and urban settings. Figure 1 illustrates symptoms by type and case rates by age, month, and year of diagnosis.

Taylor Eddens, Daniel J. Kaplan, Alyce J. M. Anderson, et al.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 68(3), 426-434

02/2019

Document

Children and youth · Infectious diseases · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Pennsylvania