Refractoriness of the western fence lizard (sceloporus occidentalis) to the lyme disease group spirochete borrelia bissettii

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 691-696

  Lane, R S ^a   Mun, J ^a   Eisen, L ^a,b   Eisen, R J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CRICETIDAE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLEROPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IXODES; LIZARDS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODIDA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SPIROCHAETALES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748928401     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-738R1.1     Document Type: Article

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