Increased incidence of Lyme borreliosis following mild winters and during warm, humid summers. publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology

摘要

It was with great interest that we read the article by Bennet et al. , in which they analysed the influence of climatic features on the incidence of Lyme borreliosis during 1997-2003 in a defined area of southern Sweden. We carried out a similar analysis in Scotland for the years 1999-2003 and published our results in 2005 , The remarkable finding is that although the two study designs were significantly different, but in overlapping years, similar conclusions were drawn.