Enzootic transmission of Babesia divergens among cottontail rabbits on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 455-460

  Goethert, Heidi K ^a,b   Telford III, Sam R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA ANDERSONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; HOST; INFECTION RATE; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES DENTATUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; SPLEEN; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BOVINAE; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES DENTATUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1342283182     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2003.69.455     Document Type: Article

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