Novel potential reservoirs for Borrelia sp. and the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Colorado

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 478-482

  DeNatale, Christopher E ^a   Burkot, Thomas R ^a   Schneider, Bradley S ^a   Zeidner, Nordin S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Borrelia bissettii; Chipmunks; Ground squirrels; HGE agent; Spermophilus; Tamias

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA SP.; CERVIDAE; CRICETINAE; IXODES; IXODES SPINIPALPIS; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MEXICANA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; TAMIAS; TAMIAS MINIMUS; TAMIAS QUADRIVITTATUS; TAMIAS UMBRINUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; COLORADO; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 0036549710     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.2.478     Document Type: Article

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