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A plot of the incidence rate (IR) of spotted fever group rickettsiosis vs. decade of report by Amblyomma americanum presence, 1993–2013. The estimates are from our Poisson model of the IR using case counts from the Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System and population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. The error bars represent Wald 95% confidence intervals.
