Community ecology and disease risk: Lizards, squirrels, and the Lyme disease spirochete in California, USA

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 293-298

  Salkeld, Daniel J ^a,b,c   Lane, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b International Union for the Conservation of Nature   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; California; Dilution effect; Elgaria spp.; Ixodes pacificus; Lyme disease; Sceloporus occidentalis; Sciurus griseus; USA; Vector borne disease; Western black legged tick; Western gray squirrel

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; HEALTH RISK; HOST LOCATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; RODENT; TICK; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; RAT; SCIURIDAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CALIFORNIA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; IXODES; LIZARDS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEROMYSCUS; RATS; SCIURIDAE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ELGARIA; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; MUS; NEOTOMA; PEROMYSCUS; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS GRISEUS; SPIROCHAETALES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77649224507     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2106.1     Document Type: Article

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