Targeting the tick-pathogen interface for novel control strategies

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6947-6956

  De La Fuente, Jose ^a,b   Kocan, Katherine M ^a   Almazan, Consuelo ^c   Blouin, Edmour F ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE TAMAULIPAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Control; Ehrlichia; Evolution; Paratransgenesis; Review; Rickettsia; RNA interference; Tick; Tickpathogen interface; Vaccine; Virus; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; EHRLICHIA; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA;

VACCINE;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFESTATION; LYME DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; VACCINES;

EID: 52049110044     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3201     Document Type: Article

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