Co-infection of blacklegged ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi is higher than expected and acquired from small mammal hosts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hersh, Michelle H ^a,b,g   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b   McHenry, Diana J ^a   Tibbetts, Michael ^a   Brunner, Jesse L ^c   Killilea, Mary E ^d   LoGiudice, Kathleen ^e   Schmidt, Kenneth A ^f   Keesing, Felicia ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^f TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; INFECTION RATE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SCIURIDAE; SMALL MAMMAL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIROPLASMOSIS; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE;

EID: 84903287452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099348     Document Type: Article

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