Ticks, lyme disease spirochetes, trypanosomes, and antibody to encephalitis viruses in wild birds from coastal Georgia and South Carolina

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1178-1182

  Durden, Lance A ^a   McLean, Robert G ^b   Oliver Jr , James H ^a   Ubico, Sonya R ^b   James, Angela M ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

BIRD; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LYME DISEASE; TICK; TRYPANOSOMES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; GEORGIA; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; SOUTH CAROLINA; TRYPANOSOMA;

USA, GEORGIA, CATHERINE'S ISLAND; USA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDGE PLANTATION;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; EQUIDAE; IXODES; IXODES MINOR; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; PROTOZOA; RNA VIRUSES; SPIROCHAETALES; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA AVIUM;

EID: 0031468797     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284382     Document Type: Article

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