Role of the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) in the epizootiology of Lyme borreliosis in northwestern Illinois, USA

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-46

  Slajchert, T ^a   Kitron, U D ^a   Jones, C J ^a   Mannelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme borreliosis; Peromyscus leucopus; Tamias striatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTERNAL EAR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RACCOON; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EAR, EXTERNAL; ILLINOIS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RACCOONS; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0030635859     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-33.1.40     Document Type: Article

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