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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 210-216Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid1402.070725
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- NCATS NIH HHS [UL1 TR000142] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [M01-RR00125, K24 RR022477, RR022477, M01 RR000125] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [5K23AI068280, K24 AI001703, AI01703] Funding Source: Medline
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After the manufacture of Lyme vaccine was discontinued in 2002, strategies to prevent Lyme disease (LD) have focused on personal protective measures. Effectiveness of these measures has not been conclusively demonstrated. The aim of our case-control study was to assess the effectiveness of personal preventive measures in a highly disease-endemic area. Case-patients were persons with LD reported to Connecticut's Department of Public Health and classified as having definite, possible, or unlikely LD. Age-matched controls without LD were identified. Study participants were interviewed to assess the practice of preventive measures and to obtain information on occupational and recreational risk factors. Use of protective clothing was 40% effective; routine use of tick repellents on skin or clothing was 20% effective. Checking one's body for ticks and spraying property with acaricides were not effective. We concluded that use of protective clothing and of tick repellents (on skin or clothing) are effective in preventing LD.
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