Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 344-376

  Telford, S R T ^a   Goethert, H K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511551802.017     Document Type: Chapter

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