Interspecific differences between small mammals as hosts of immature Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and a model for detection of high risk areas of rocky mountain spotted fever

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 707-710

  Kollars Jr , Thomas M ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; IXODES; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; LARVA; MICE; NYMPH; OPOSSUMS; PEROMYSCUS; RACCOONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RODENT DISEASES; SHREWS; SIGMODONTINAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DIDELPHIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; IXODES; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS PINETORUM; MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; OCHROTOMYS NUTTALLI; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS NATATOR; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PROCYON; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; SIGMODON; MICROTUS DUODECIMCOSTATUS; MUS SPRETUS; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS; SIGMODEO HISPIDUS;

DISEASE DETECTION; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SMALL MAMMAL; VECTOR;

USA, TENNESSEE;

EID: 0029659254     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3283879     Document Type: Article

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