Host associations of ticks parasitizing rodents at Borrelia burgdorferi enzootic sites in South Carolina

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1379-1386

  Clark, K L ^a   Oliver J H , Jr ^a   Grego, J M ^a   James, A M ^a   Durden, L A ^a   Banks, C W ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LYME DISEASE; RODENT; TICK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RAT; TICK; UNITED STATES;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; IXODES; IXODES AFFINIS; IXODES MINOR; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA FLORIDANA; OCHROTOMYS NUTTALLI; ORYZOMYS; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS; ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS NATATOR; PEROMYSCUS GOSSYPINUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RATTUS RATTUS; REITHRODONTOMYS; REITHRODONTOMYS HUMULIS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0035665366     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2001)087[1379:haotpr]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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