Overview: Ticks as vectors of pathogens that cause disease in humans and animals

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6938-6946

  De La Fuente, Jose ^a,b   Estrada Pena, Agustin ^c   Venzal, Jose M ^c   Kocan, Katherine M ^a   Sonenshine, Daniel E ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Ehrlichia; Pathogen; Review; Rickettsia; Tick; Virus

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; EHRLICHIA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA; VERMES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RICKETTSIOSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 52049116868     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3200     Document Type: Review

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