Wild birds and urban ecology of ticks and tick-borne pathogens, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2005-2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1589-1595

  Hamer, Sarah A ^a,b   Goldberg, Tony L ^c   Kitron, Uriel D ^d   Brawn, Jeffrey D ^e   Anderson, Tavis K ^c   Loss, Scott R ^e,f   Walker, Edward D ^a   Hamer, Gabriel L ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P44; RNA 16S;

AMBLYOMMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHICAGO; ECOSYSTEM; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84866545397     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1810.120511     Document Type: Article

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