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| Title |
Does high biodiversity reduce the risk of Lyme disease invasion?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-6-195 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Catherine Bouchard, Guy Beauchamp, Patrick A Leighton, Robbin Lindsay, Denise Bélanger, Nick H Ogden |
| Abstract |
It has been suggested that increasing biodiversity, specifically host diversity, reduces pathogen and parasite transmission amongst wildlife (causing a "dilution effect"), whereby transmission amongst efficient reservoir hosts, (e.g. Peromyscus spp. mice for the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi) is reduced by the presence of other less efficient host species. If so, then increasing biodiversity should inhibit pathogen and parasite invasion. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 164 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 159 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 17% |
| Researcher | 28 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 28 | 17% |
| Unknown | 30 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 58 | 35% |
| Environmental Science | 18 | 11% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 10 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 26 | 16% |
| Unknown | 34 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 June 2023.
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#1,307,301
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Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#174
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#10,829
of 206,961 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#4
of 52 outputs
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