Competence of Urban Rats as Reservoir Hosts for Lyme Disease Spirochetes

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 489-493

  Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a,b   Endepols, Stefan ^a,c   Richter, Dania ^a,b   Spielman, Andrew ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; Rats; Reservoir competence; Urban transmission

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EATING; GERBIL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PERIODICITY; RABBIT; RAT; RODENT DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EATING; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MURIDAE; PERIODICITY; RABBITS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031183057     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/34.4.489     Document Type: Article

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