Ecological havoc, the rise of white-tailed deer, and the emergence of Amblyomma americanum-associated zoonoses in the United States

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 315, Issue , 2007, Pages 289-324

  Paddock, C D ^a   Yabsley, M J ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; DEFORESTATION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; LYME DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WHITE TAILED DEER; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; TICK;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; BORRELIA LONESTARI; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIA EWINGII; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; TICKS; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 34748867814     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70962-6_12     Document Type: Review

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