Tick-host interactions: Saliva-activated transmission

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Nuttall, Pat A ^a,c   Labuda, M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pathogen transmission; Saliva activated transmission; Tick saliva

Indexed keywords

HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; SALIVA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

ACARI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20344388535     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004005633     Document Type: Review

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