Borreliacidal factor in the blood of the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-34

  Lane, R S ^a   Quistad, G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BLOOD; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYME DISEASE; SPIROCHAETE; TICK; WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK; WESTERN FENCE LIZARD;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; IXODES; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; HEAT; IXODES; LIZARDS; MICE; NYMPH; RABBITS;

ACARI; AMPHIBIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; REPTILIA; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SPIROCHAETA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0031917278     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284524     Document Type: Article

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