Widespread dispersal of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks collected from songbirds across Canada

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-59

  Scott, John D ^a   Anderson, John F ^a,b   Durden, Lance A ^a,c  

^a Lyme Disease Association of Ontario   (Canada)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARVA; SAMPLING; SONGBIRD; TICK;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOST; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; SONGBIRDS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

CANADA;

AGELAIUS; AVES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DENDROICA STRIATA; GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS; IXODES; IXODES AFFINIS; IXODES ANGUSTUS; IXODES AURITULUS; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODES SPINIPALPIS; IXODIDA; JUNCO HYEMALIS; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASSERINA CYANEA; SPIZELLA; THRYOMANES; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE; VERMIVORA RUFICAPILLA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 84863271309     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2874.1     Document Type: Article

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