Editorial: Exploring the messages of the salivary glands of Ixodes ricinus

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-224

  Valenzuela, Jesus G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SALIVA PROTEIN;

BABESIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; EDITORIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IXODES; METABOLISM; SECRETION; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; BABESIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS;

ANIMALS; IXODES; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 0036315786     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2002.66.223     Document Type: Editorial

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