The role of lizards in the ecology of Lyme disease in two endemic zones of the northeastern United States

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 511-517

  Giery, Sean T ^a,b   Ostfeld, Richard S ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISEASE VECTOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ECOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INFESTATION; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TICK; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; IXODES; LIZARDS; LYME DISEASE; MARYLAND; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EUMECES FASCIATUS; IXODIDA; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34447133454     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1053R1.1     Document Type: Article

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