Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi-infection prevalence of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ticks along forest-field edges

EcoHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 262-268

  Horobik, Valerie ^a   Keesing, Felicia ^b,c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacklegged tick; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis; Landscape epidemiology; Lyme disease; Tick ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; FOREST; HABITAT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LANDSCAPE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ZOOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33847223808     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-006-0065-1     Document Type: Article

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