The ecology of ticks transmitting Lyme borreliosis

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 249-258

  Gray, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Diapause; Genospecies; Host requirements; Life cycle; Lyme borreliosis; Spirochaete; Tick ecology

Indexed keywords

BORRELIOSIS; DISEASE VECTOR; LIFE CYCLE; LYME DISEASE; SEASONALITY; TICK;

ACARI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0031949293     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006070416135     Document Type: Review

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