Mammal diversity and infection prevalence in the maintenance of enzootic Borrelia burgdorferi along the Western Coastal Plains of Maryland

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 411-422

  Anderson, Jennifer M ^a,b   Swanson, Katherine I ^a   Schwartz, Timothy R ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^a   Norris, Douglas E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; COASTAL PLAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; HOST; HUMAN; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MALE; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MARYLAND; PEROMYSCUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA;

AVES; BLARINA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

EID: 33846468319     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2006.6.411     Document Type: Article

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