The effect of infection with Lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi) on the phototaxis, activity, and questing height of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis

Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-103

  Lefcort, H ^a,b   Durden, L A ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; parasitic modification of behaviour; ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BEHAVIOR; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTAXIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS;

EID: 0029839928     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000066336     Document Type: Article

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