Exposure of black-legged kittiwakes to Lyme disease spirochetes: Dynamics of the immune status of adult hosts and effects on their survival

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 986-995

  Chambert, Thierry ^a,b   Staszewski, Vincent ^a,c   Lobato, Elisa ^a   Choquet, Rémi ^a   Carrie, Cécile ^a   Mccoy, Karen D ^d   Tveraa, Torkild ^e   Boulinier, Thierry ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d University de Montpellier   (France)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antibody persistence; Immuno ecology; Lyme disease bacteria; Misclassification; Rissa tridactyla; Seroconversion dynamics; State uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DATA SET; DISEASE VECTOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LYME DISEASE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PATHOLOGY; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TICK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHARADRIIFORMES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; SEROLOGY; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHARADRIIFORMES; IXODES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODIDA; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84864958502     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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