Importance of systematics to public health: Ticks, microbes, and disease

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-46

  Oliver Jr , James H ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA; SPIROCHAETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029786795     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2399966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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