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T1  - Enhanced threat of tick-borne infections within cities? Assessing public health risks due to ticks in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/333107 
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A1  - Sormunen, Jani Jukka; Kulha, Niko; Klemola, Tero; Makela, Satu; Vesilahti, Ella-Maria; Vesterinen, Eero Juhani 
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Y1  - 2020 
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AB  - Most tick-related studies in Europe have been conducted in nonurban areas, but ticks and tick-borne pathogens also occur in urban green spaces. From a public health perspective, risks regarding tick-borne infections should be studied in these urban areas, where contacts between infected ticks and humans may be more frequent than elsewhere, due to high human activity. We examined the risk of encountering an infected tick in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland. We collected ticks at nine sites... 
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KW  - infections; lyme disease; parks; recreational; public health; tick bites; ticks; IXODES-RICINUS TICKS; REAL-TIME PCR; BURGDORFERI SENSU-LATO; BORRELIA-BURGDORFERI; LYME-DISEASE; ANAPLASMA-PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; PREVALENCE; ENCEPHALITIS; PATHOGENS; COINFECTIONS; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health 
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