The ecology of ticks and epidemiology of tick-borne viral diseases

Antiviral Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-128

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a   De La Fuente, José ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate and host factors; Ecology; Epidemiology; Tick transmitted pathogens; Ticks

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FAUNA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LAND USE; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPRING; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VEGETATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WEATHER; WINTER; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84903193815     PISSN: 01663542     EISSN: 18729096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2014.05.016     Document Type: Review

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