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GIS tools for tick and tick-borne disease occurrence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2005

M. DANIEL ,
J. KOLÁŘ  and
P. ZEMAN
M. DANIEL
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, Prague, Czech Republic Centre of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic
J. KOLÁŘ
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
P. ZEMAN
Affiliation:
Regional Centre of Hygiene, Prague, Czech Republic
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Abstract

Geographic information systems (GIS), their fundamental components and technologies are described. GIS is a computer-based system enabling the storage, integration, query, display and analysis of data using information on data location. Further, remote sensing (RS) methods and their application in landscape characterization are described. Landscape pattern analysis, combined with statistical analysis, allows the determination of landscape predictors of disease risk. This makes RS/GIS a powerful set of tools for disease surveillance, enabling the prediction of potential disease outbreaks and targeting intervention programs. The ‘pre-GIS era’ is briefly described including the early mapping of tick distribution, analyses and the display of biogeographical and medical data. The theory of natural focality of diseases (NFD) is explained and its significance in tick-borne diseases (TBD) research is discussed. Many problems of tick ecology and TBD epidemiology and epizootology have been addressed by means of GIS and examples of these studies are presented and discussed.

Keywords

Geographic information systemsremote sensingtickstick-borne diseases
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Parasitology , Volume 129 , Issue S1 , October 2004 , pp. S329 - S352
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