Synchronous phenology of juvenile Ixodes scapularis, vertebrate host relationships, and associated patterns of Borrelia burgdorferi ribotypes in the midwestern United States

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-74

  Hamer, Sarah A ^a   Hickling, Graham J ^b   Sidge, Jennifer L ^a   Walker, Edward D ^a   Tsao, Jean I ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Intergenic spacer ribotypes; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme borreliosis; Peromyscus leucopus

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER TYPE 1; RIBOSOMAL SPACER TYPE 2; RIBOSOMAL SPACER TYPE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; PEROMYSCUS; RIBOTYPING; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; TAMIAS STRIATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859507574     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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