Impact of climate trends on tick-borne pathogen transmission

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 MAR, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a   Ayllón, Nieves ^b   de la Fuente, José ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Climate; Genetics; Model; Tick; Virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866274744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00064     Document Type: Review

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