Deer Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) and the Agents of Lyme Disease and Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in a New York City Park

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 353-355

  Daniels, Thomas J ^a,b   Falco, Richard C ^a,b   Schwartz, Ira ^b   Varde, Shobha ^b   Robbins, Richard G ^c  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NEW YORK CITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031178843     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970312     Document Type: Article

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