Infection with agents of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, lyme disease, and babesiosis in wild white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Connecticut

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2887-2892

  Stafford III, Kirby C ^a   Massung, Robert F ^b   Magnarelli, Louis A ^a   Ijdo, Jacob W ^c   Anderson, John F ^a  

^a Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032780084     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.9.2887-2892.1999     Document Type: Article

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