Natural coinfection of a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population with three Ehrlichia spp.

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 897-901

  Little, S E ^a   Stallknecht, D E ^a   Lockhart, J M ^a   Dawson, J E ^a,b   Davidson, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; PARASITE INFESTATION; TICK; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DEER; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; IXODES; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTEREMIA; DEER; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IXODES; LYMPH NODES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUTROPHILS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CERVIDAE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; RICKETTSIALES; UNGULATA;

EID: 0031769379     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284616     Document Type: Article

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