Longitudinal study of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in a population of Peromyscus leucopus at a lyme disease-enzootic site in Maryland

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 598-609

  Hofmeister, Erik K ^a,b   Ellis, Barbara A ^a,c   Glass, Gregory E ^a   Childs, James E ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0032922920     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.598     Document Type: Article

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