Transmission of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis by Ixodes spinipalpis ticks: Evidence of an enzootic cycle of dual infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in Northern Colorado

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 616-619

  Zeidner, Nordin S ^a   Burkot, Thomas R ^a   Massung, Robert ^b   Nicholson, William L ^b   Dolan, Marc C ^a   Rutherford, Jeremiah S ^a   Biggerstaff, Brad J ^a   Maupin, Gary O ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; IXODES; IXODES SPINIPALPIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SPLEEN; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033840772     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315715     Document Type: Article

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