Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3423127 | Trends in Parasitology | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Endemic stability is a widely used term in the epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases. It is generally accepted to refer to a state of a host–tick–pathogen interaction in which there is a high level of challenge of calves by infected ticks, absence of clinical disease in calves despite infection, and a high level of immunity in adult cattle with consequent low incidence of clinical disease. Although endemic stability is a valid epidemiological concept, the modelling studies that underpinned subsequent studies on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases were specific to a single host–tick–pathogen system, and values derived from these models should not be applied in other regions or host–tick–pathogen systems.
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Authors
Nicholas N. Jonsson, Russell E. Bock, Wayne K. Jorgensen, John M. Morton, Michael J. Stear,