Prevalence of infection in ticks submitted to the human tick test kit program of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-74

  Stromdahl, E Y ^a   Evans, S R ^a   O'Brien, J J ^a   Gutierrez, A G ^a  

^a U S ARMY CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Dermacentor variabilis; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; Rickettsioses; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLASSIFICATION; DERMACENTOR; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GENETICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICKETTSIA; SOLDIER; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DERMACENTOR; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IXODES; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICKETTSIA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035220920     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-38.1.67     Document Type: Article

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