Effects of tick control by acaricide self-treatment of white-tailed deer on host-seeking tick infection prevalence and entomologic risk for Ixodes scapularis-borne pathogens

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-438

  Hoen, Anne Gatewood ^a,h   Rollend, Lindsay G ^a   Papero, Michele A ^a,b   Carroll, John F ^c   Daniels, Thomas J ^d   Mather, Thomas N ^e   Schulze, Terry L ^f   Stafford III, Kirby C ^g   Fish, Durland ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^f PhD Inc   (United States)

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

^h BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

4 Poster; Acaricide; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi; Borrelia miyamotoi; Coinfection; Entomologic risk index; Ixodes scapularis; Tick control; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SPIROCHETE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WHITE TAILED DEER; ZOOLOGY;

ACARICIDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEER; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NEW ENGLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CERVIDAE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 68349099925     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0155     Document Type: Article

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