Geopathology of acari-borne infectious diseases inside and neighboring areas of Japan

Abstract

Recently the researches on acari-borne infectious diseases including emerging and re-emerging diseases in Japan are very progressive. Surveillance of these diseases is important and necessary from the point of view of geopathology inside and neighboring areas of Japan. Here I considered various factors of geopathology, especially distributional patterns of vector acari in association with prevalences of pathogens and human cases.