Community-based prevention of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases through topical application of acaricide to white-tailed deer: Background and rationale

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 357-364

  Fish, Durland ^a   Childs, James E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; Prevention; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; INSECT REPELLENT;

AMBLYOMMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEEDING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WHITE TAILED DEER;

ACARICIDES; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEER; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; NEW ENGLAND; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 68349106693     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0022     Document Type: Review

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