Distribution of the Lyme disease spirochete borrelia burgdorferi in naturally and experimentally infected western gray squirrels (Sciurus griseus)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 441-446

  Leonhard, Sarah ^a   Jensen, Kelly ^b   Salkeld, Daniel J ^a   Lane, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Epidemiology; Lyme disease; Rodents; Ticks

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE DURATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYME DISEASE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RODENT; SKIN; SKIN BIOPSY; SQUIRREL; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TISSUE INJURY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EAR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS GRISEUS;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EAR; LYME DISEASE; LYMPH NODES; SCIURIDAE; SKIN; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 77954187613     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0127     Document Type: Article

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