The Spirochetes and Vector Ticks of Lyme Borreliosis in Nature

Lyme Borreliosis in Europe and North America: Epidemiology and Clinical Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-51

  Piesman, Joseph ^a   Humair, Pierre François ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

First line of defense, against Lyme disease personal protection, knowing ticks' habitat; Spirochetes and vector ticks of Lyme borreliosis in nature transmitting spirochetes, closely related species in genus Ixodes; Tick ecology, and North America Ixodes scapularis, tick species tied to forests and leaf litter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886552343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470933961.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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