Geographic risk for Lyme disease and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in southern New York State

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4663-4669

  Daniels, Thomas J ^a   Boccia, Theresa M ^a   Varde, Shobha ^b   Marcus, Jonathan ^b   Jianhua, Le ^b   Bucher, Doris J ^b   Falco, Richard C ^a,b   Schwartz, Ira ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST; LYME DISEASE; MONITORING; PATHOGEN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RISK; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; VECTOR CONTROL;

NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; HEXAPODA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0031735245     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.12.4663-4669.1998     Document Type: Article

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