Duration of tick bites in a Lyme disease-endemic area

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-192

  Falco, Richard C ^a,b,c   Fish, Durland ^b,d   Piesman, Joseph ^e  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Westchester Co Department of Health   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Lyme disease; tick borne disease; ticks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TICK BITE;

EID: 0030066067     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008728     Document Type: Article

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