Microgeographic distribution of immature Ixodes dammini ticks correlated with that of deer

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 151-159

  WILSON, MARK L ^a   DUCEY, ANNE M ^b   LITWIN, THOMAS S ^b   GAVIN, THOMAS A ^c   SPIELMAN, ANDREW ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acari; Ixodes dammini; Lyme disease; Odocoileus virginianus; Peromyscus leucopus; population ecology; spatial distributions; white footed mouse; white tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRICETIDAE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RODENT DISEASE; SEASON; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; DEER; FEMALE; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEW YORK; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 0025405849     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1990.tb00273.x     Document Type: Article

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