Natural Lyme disease cycles maintained via sheep by cofeeding ticks

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 591-599

  Ogden, N H ^a,b,c   Nuttall, P A ^b   Randolph, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co feeding transmission; Lyme borreliosis; Sheep; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; OVIS ARIES; SPIROCHAETA;

EID: 0031407351     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001868     Document Type: Article

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