Borrelia burgdorferi has minimal impact on the lyme disease reservoir host peromyscus leucopus

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-124

  Schwanz, Lisa E ^a   Voordouw, Maarten J ^b   Brisson, Dustin ^b   Ostfeld, Richard S ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black legged ticks; Footed mice; Host; Lyme disease; Spirochete; Vector encounter rates; White

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD CELL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST; IMMUNITY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LEUKOCYTE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PEROMYSCUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 79551600560     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0215     Document Type: Article

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