Agents of human anaplasmosis and lyme disease at Camp Ripley, Minnesota

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1529-1534

  Johnson, Russell C ^a   Kodner, Carrie ^a   Jarnefeld, Janet ^b   Eck, Deborah K ^a   Xu, Yaning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Mosquito Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEER; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MINNESOTA; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 83455262426     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0633     Document Type: Article

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