Role of small mammals in the ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi in a peri-urban park in north coastal California

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 569-584

  Peavey, Chindi A ^a   Lane, Robert S ^a   Kleinjan, Joyce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ecology; Hosts; Ixodes spinipalpis; Vectors

Indexed keywords

BORRELIOSIS; BRASH RABBIT; ENZOOTIOLOGY; LYME DISEASE; RODENT; URBAN PARK;

CALIFORNIA; USA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRICETINAE; IXODES NEOTOMAE; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SPINIPALPIS; IXODIDAE; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS CALIFORNICUS; MURIDAE; NEOTOMA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PEROMYSCUS TRUEI; RATTUS RATTUS; REITHRODONTOMYS MEGALOTIS; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETALES; SYLVILAGUS BACHMANI;

EID: 0031213923     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018448416618     Document Type: Article

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