Preventing Lyme disease
Anderson, J.F.
Rheumatic Diseases Clinics of North America 15(4): 757-766
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0889-857X PMID: 2685929 Document Number: 328425
Prevention of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi infection) in man is reviewed. Methods discussed are personal protection (use of repellents, tick removal, and avoidance of tick-infested areas) and control of vector ticks (Ixodes dammini, I. ricinus, I. persulcatus, I. pacificus and I. scapularis) using biological control with parasitoids, environmental modification and physical control (altering vegetation and denying ticks access to host animals), and chemical control (use of acaricides as residual sprays and treatment of burrows of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)).