Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U.S.A.

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hamer, Sarah A ^a,b   Hickling, Graham J ^c   Keith, Rich ^d   Sidge, Jennifer L ^a   Walker, Edward D ^e   Tsao, Jean I ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d Kalamazoo Nature Center   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia andersonii; Borrelia miyamotoi; Eastern cottontail rabbit; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Relapsing fever; Ticks; Wild birds

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BIRD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; EAR; IXODIDAE; LARVAL STAGE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; SPIROCHETE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; XENODIAGNOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; IXODES; LAGOMORPHA; MICHIGAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA ANDERSONII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; IXODES; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASSERIFORMES; SPIROCHAETALES; SYLVILAGUS FLORIDANUS;

EID: 84867235238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-231     Document Type: Article

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