Lyme disease in outdoor workers: risk factors, preventive measures, and tick removal methods.

Abstract:

:A statewide cross-sectional study of risk factors for seropositivity for antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in outdoor workers in New Jersey was performed in September and October 1988. The crude odds ratio associated with exposure to ticks on the primary state job was 2.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-9.0). After adjustment for multiple confounding variables with logistic regression, the adjusted occupational tick exposure odds ratio was 5.1 (95% CI 1.1-23.6). Additional analyses revealed that any use of insect repellent or antibiotics may have decreased the risk of Lyme disease in these workers (adjusted odds ratios for not using insect repellent or antibiotics were 2.0 (95% CI 1.0-4.0) and 2.3 (95% CI 0.8-6.7), respectively). These data suggest that Lyme disease is a hazard of outdoor work and that increased recognition of this fact will be necessary to prevent Lyme disease in these workers.

journal_name

Am J Epidemiol

authors

Schwartz BS,Goldstein MD

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115578

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-05-01 00:00:00

pages

877-85

issue

5

eissn

0002-9262

issn

1476-6256

journal_volume

131

pub_type

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