Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti: Efficiency of transmission from reservoirs to vector ticks (Ixodes dammini)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 55-61

  Mather, Thomas N ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^a   Moore, Sean I ^a   Spielman, Andrew ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesiosis, Babesia microti; Ixodes dammini; Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi; Peromyscus leucopus; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES DAMMINI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTOZOON;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; RODENT DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TICKS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES DAMMINI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0025169767     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(90)90085-Q     Document Type: Article

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