Tick-raccoon associations and the potential for Lyme disease spirochete transmission in the coastal plain of North Carolina

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-39

  Ouellette, John ^a,b   Apperson, Charles S ^a   Howard, Peter ^a   Evans, Timothy L ^a,c   Levine, Jay F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c Anderson Tully Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Antibodies; Borrelia burgdorferi; Infestation intensity; Prevalence; Procyon lotor; Raccoons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RACCOON; SEASON; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DERMACENTOR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; NYMPH; RACCOONS; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 0030640915     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-33.1.28     Document Type: Article

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