Associations between Ixodes scapularis ticks and small mammal hosts in a newly endemic zone in southeastern Canada: Implications for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 183-190

  Bouchard, C ^a   Beauchamp, G ^a   Nguon, S ^b   Trudel, L ^b   Milord, F ^b   Lindsay, L R ^c   Belanger D ^a   Ogden, N H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Host associations; Immature Ixodes scapularis; Peromyscus spp.; Seasonality; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANADA; CHIPMUNK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROTUS; MOUSE; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MYODES GAPPERI; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHREW; SMALL MAMMAL; SOREX; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPRING; SQUIRREL; SUMMER; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS; VOLE; WILD SPECIES; ZAPUS HUDSONICUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; QUEBEC; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 81855164601     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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