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Volume 329:1513-1514 November 11, 1993 Number 20
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Ecology and Environmental Management of Lyme Disease

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Edited by Howard S. Ginsberg. 224 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1993. $37. ISBN 0-8135-1928-4.

In the introduction to this book the editor states that its purpose "is to summarize the progress to date in understanding the natural history and epizootiology of Lyme disease. It is my hope that synthesis of this information will provide a useful starting point for efforts to manage the ticks that transmit Lyme disease." In my opinion, it accomplishes this goal.

The book provides a scientific foundation for considering realistic public health options for controlling Lyme disease. In view of the controversy about the optimal means to diagnose and manage Lyme disease, the role of public health approaches to disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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