Controlling ticks and tick-borne zoonoses with biological and chemical agents

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 383-394

  Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Price, Amber ^b   Hornbostel, Victoria L ^c   Benjamin, Michael A ^d   Keesing, Felicia ^e  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Kent School ^*  (United States)

^d Kent School   (United States)

^e BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Biological control; Entomopathogenic fungi; Lyme disease; Tick control

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646508524     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0383:CTATZW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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