Ticks: The vectors of Lyme disease

Lyme Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-28

  Smith, Robert P ^a,b,c  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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