Tick-borne Great Island Virus: (II) Impact of age-related acquired immunity on transmission in a natural seabird host

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-253

  Nunn, M A ^a   Barton, T R ^a,b   Wanless, S ^a   Hails, R S ^a   Harris, M P ^a   Nuttall, P A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age related immunity; Arbovirus; Ixodes uriae; Tick; Uria aalge; Virus transmission

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREAT ISLAND VIRUS; HOST; IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TICK; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIRD DISEASES; BODY WEIGHT; CHARADRIIFORMES; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IXODES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORBIVIRUS; PREVALENCE; REOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; GREAT ISLAND VIRUS; IXODES URIAE; LARIDAE; URIA AALGE;

EID: 32444433640     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005008954     Document Type: Article

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