Borrelia hermsii acquisition order in superinfected ticks determines transmission efficiency

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2899-2908

  Policastro, Paul F ^a   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Schwan, Tom G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA HERMSII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; SUPERINFECTION; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOTYPE; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPERINFECTION; TICKS;

EID: 84880679533     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00542-13     Document Type: Article

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