Dermatologic changes induced by repeated ixodes scapularis bites and implications for prevention of tick-borne infection

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 603-610

  Krause, Peter J ^a,b   Grant Kels, Jane M ^a   Tahan, Steven R ^c   Dardick, Kenneth R ^a   Alarcon Chaidez, Francisco ^a   Bouchard, Keith ^a   Visini, Christine ^a   Deriso, Cindy ^a   Foppa, Ivo M ^d   Wikel, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Farmington   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunology; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Tick(s)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 72749114573     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0091     Document Type: Article

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