The United States Department of Agriculture's Northeast Area-wide Tick Control Project: Summary and conclusions

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-448

  Pound, Joe Mathews ^a   Miller, John Allen ^a   George, John E ^a   Fish, Durland ^b   Carroll, John F ^c   Schulze, Terry L ^d   Daniels, Thomas J ^e   Falco, Richard C ^f   Stafford III, Kirby C ^g   Mather, Thomas N ^h  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d PhD Inc   (United States)

^e Fordham University   (United States)

^f NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

4 Poster; Acaricide; Amblyomma americanum; Host targeted; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; Odocoileus virginianus; Tick control; Tick borne disease; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POPULATION RECOVERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WHITE TAILED DEER;

ACARICIDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DEER; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; NEW ENGLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; ZEA MAYS;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; CERVIDAE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 68349083252     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0200     Document Type: Article

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