Correlation between tick density and pathogen endemicity, New Hampshire

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-587

  Walk, Seth T ^a   Xu, Guang ^a   Stull, Jason W ^b,c   Rich, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NEW HAMPSHIRE;

EID: 65349084477     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.080940     Document Type: Article

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