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Sophie O. Vanwambeke
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Tick abundance and infection with three zoonotic bacteria are heterogeneous in a Belgian peri-urban forest
Ixodes ricinus is a vector of several pathogens of public health interest. While forests are the primary habitat for I. ricinus, its abundance and infection prevalence are expected to vary within forest stands. T...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution prediction models for Rhipicephalus microplus and Amblyomma cajennense s.l. ticks affecting cattle and their spatial distribution in continental Ecuador using bioclimatic factors
In Ecuador, the main tick species affecting cattle are Rhipicephalus microplus and Amblyomma cajennense sensu lato. Understanding their spatial distribution is crucial. To assess their distribution, data from 289...
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Open AccessNon-response bias in the analysis of the association between mental health and the urban environment: a cross-sectional study in Brussels, Belgium
This paper aims at analysing the impact of partial non-response in the association between urban environment and mental health in Brussels. The potential threats of the partial non-response are biases in surve...
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Open AccessdynamAedes: a unified modelling framework for invasive Aedes mosquitoes
Mosquito species belonging to the genus Aedes have attracted the interest of scientists and public health officers because of their capacity to transmit viruses that affect humans. Some of these species were brou...
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Open AccessInvestigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospital incidence—Belgium as a study case
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting nations globally, but with an impact exhibiting significant spatial and temporal variation at the sub-national level. Identifying and disentangling the drivers of resulting h...
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Open AccessSpatial dynamics of a zoonotic orthohantavirus disease through heterogenous data on rodents, rodent infections, and human disease
Zoonotic diseases are challenging to study from the ecological point of view as, broadly speaking, datasets tend to be either detailed on a small spatial extent, or coarse on a large spatial extent. Also, ther...
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Open AccessGlobal distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010
Global data sets on the geographic distribution of livestock are essential for diverse applications in agricultural socio-economics, food security, environmental impact assessment and epidemiology. We present ...
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Open AccessSeroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Belgian forestry workers and associated risk factors
As forest is the preferred environment for ticks, forestry workers are exposed to tick bites and tick-borne diseases. We assessed the seroprevalence of anti-Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) antibodies and investigated, ...
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Open AccessTime trend of clinical cases of Lyme disease in two hospitals in Belgium, 2000–2013
As several studies indicated an increase in Lyme disease (LD), notably in neighbouring countries, concerns have arisen regarding the evolution of Lyme disease in Belgium. In order to confirm or infirm the incr...
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Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Model Ixodes ricinus Habitat Suitability
Tick-borne diseases present a major threat to both human and livestock health throughout Europe. The risk of infection is directly related to the presence of its vector. Thereby it is important to know their d...
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Open AccessSha** zoonosis risk: landscape ecology vs. landscape attractiveness for people, the case of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden
In this paper, the hazard and exposure concepts from risk assessment are applied in an innovative approach to understand zoonotic disease risk. Hazard is here related to the landscape ecology determining where...
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Open AccessClimate and environmental change drives Ixodes ricinus geographical expansion at the northern range margin
Global environmental change is causing spatial and temporal shifts in the distribution of species and the associated diseases of humans, domesticated animals and wildlife. In the on-going debate on the influen...
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Open AccessPhysico-chemical and biological characterization of anopheline mosquito larval habitats (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for malaria control
A fundamental understanding of the spatial distribution and ecology of mosquito larvae is essential for effective vector control intervention strategies. In this study, data-driven decision tree models, genera...
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Open AccessModelling zoonotic diseases in humans: comparison of methods for hantavirus in Sweden
Because their distribution usually depends on the presence of more than one species, modelling zoonotic diseases in humans differs from modelling individual species distribution even though the data are simila...
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Open AccessA multi-level analysis of the relationship between environmental factors and questing Ixodes ricinus dynamics in Belgium
Ticks are the most important pathogen vectors in Europe. They are known to be influenced by environmental factors, but these links are usually studied at specific temporal or spatial scales. Focusing on Ixodes ri...
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Open AccessPathogenic landscapes: Interactions between land, people, disease vectors, and their animal hosts
Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence. We present a review of the key findings from eight case studies that we conducted in Europe and West Africa on the impact of land...
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Cover Essay: The Fearsome and the Fuzzy
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Distribution and Density of Tsetse Flies (Glossinidae: Diptera) at the Game/People/Livestock Interface of the Nkhotakota Game Reserve Human Slee** Sickness Focus in Malawi
In large parts sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies, the vectors of African human or animal trypanosomiasis, are, or will in the foreseeable future, be confined to protected areas such as game or national parks. C...
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Open AccessDeterminants of the geographic distribution of Puumala virus and Lyme borreliosis infections in Belgium
Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases generally display clear spatial patterns due to different space-dependent factors. Land cover and land use influence disease transmission by controlling both the spatial dist...
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Impact of Land-use Change on Dengue and Malaria in Northern Thailand
Land-use change, a major constituent of global environmental change, potentially has significant consequences for human health in relation to mosquito-borne diseases. Land-use change can influence mosquito hab...
