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Volume 17, Number 9—September 2011
Dispatch

Canine Serology as Adjunct to Human Lyme Disease Surveillance

Paul S. MeadComments to Author , Rohan Goel, and Kiersten J. Kugeler
Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Counties meeting criteria for emergence of human Lyme disease during 2007–2009, by canine seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies during 2001–2006, 46 US states*

Canine seroprevalence, 2001–2006, %† No. low-incidence counties,‡
2001–2006 No. (%) emergent counties,§
2007–2009¶
Unknown 2,065 96 (4.5)
0 240 1 (0.4)
0.1–0.5 174 1 (0.6)
0.51–1.0 101 4 (4.0)
1.1–5.0 122 33 (27.0)
>5.1 32 18 (56.3)

*All states except Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, and Nevada.
†Data from Figure 2 in Bowman et al. (8).
‡Counties with below average incidence of human Lyme disease (<4.7 cases/100,000 population).
§Counties with below average incidence in 2001–2006 and above in 2007–2009.
¶χ2 for trend 135.9, p<0.0001, for counties with known canine seroprevalence.

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