Does high biodiversity reduce the risk of Lyme disease invasion?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bouchard, Catherine ^a   Beauchamp, Guy ^a   Leighton, Patrick A ^a   Lindsay, Robbin ^b   Bélanger, Denise ^a   Ogden, Nick H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Borrelia burgdorferi; Host; Invasion; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; HOST; INFESTATION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RISK; SEASON; TICK; TREE; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT;

AVES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CERVIDAE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANADA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENTIA;

EID: 84879492105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-195     Document Type: Article

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