Ectoparasites and other epifaunistic arthropods of sympatric cotton mice and golden mice: Comparisons amd implications for vector-borne zoonotic diseases

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1293-1297

  Durden, Lance A ^a   Polur, Ram N ^a   Nims, Todd ^a   Banks, Craig W ^a   Oliver Jr , James H ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; RODENT;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BABESIOSIS; BIODIVERSITY; ECTOPARASITE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLEA; FOX; HOST; INFESTATION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LYME DISEASE; MITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

OCHROTOMYS NUTTALLI; PEROMYSCUS GOSSYPINUS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 14244265652     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-333R     Document Type: Article

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