Agnetha Hofhuis:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-2148
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Jan van de Kassteele: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SoftwareRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Hein Sprong: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Cees C. van den Wijngaard: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Margriet G. Harms: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Manoj Fonville: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Arieke Docters van Leeuwen: Role: Investigation
Mariana Simões: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Wilfrid van Pelt: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Utpal Pal: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
24
July
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0181807
Affiliations
[1
]
Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health
and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
[2
]
Department of Statistics, Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, National Institute
for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
University of Maryland, College Park, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there are no conflicts
of interest.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-16-50811
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181807
PMC ID: 5524385
PubMed ID: 28742149
SO-VID: e9d0d2b7-218c-4dcf-b698-b622abdb9e6a
Copyright © © 2017 Hofhuis et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007192, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu;
Award Recipient
:
Wilfrid van Pelt
This study was financed by, and conducted on behalf of, the Ministry of Health, Welfare
and Sport of the Netherlands. The funders had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Bacterial Diseases
Subject:
Borrelia Infection
Subject:
Lyme Disease
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Rheumatology
Subject:
Lyme Disease
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Bacterial Diseases
Subject:
Borrelia Infection
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Borrelia
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Dermatology
Subject:
Erythema
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
Subject:
Signs and Symptoms
Subject:
Erythema
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Signs and Symptoms
Subject:
Erythema
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Disease Vectors
Subject:
Ticks
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Species Interactions
Subject:
Disease Vectors
Subject:
Ticks
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Invertebrates
Subject:
Arthropoda
Subject:
Arachnida
Subject:
Ixodes
Subject:
Ticks
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Developmental Biology
Subject:
Life Cycles
Subject:
Larvae