A New Tick-borne Encephalitis-like Virus Infecting New England Deer Ticks, Ixodes dammini

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-170

  Telford III, Sam R ^a   Armstrong, Philip M ^a   Katavolos, Paula ^a   Foppa, Ivo ^a   Garcia, A Sonia Olmeda ^a   Wilson, Mark L ^b   Spielman, Andrew ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES; IXODES; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031111147     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0302.970209     Document Type: Article

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