Life History and demographic drivers of reservoir competence for three tick-borne zoonotic pathogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Levi, Taal ^b   Jolles, Anna E ^b   Martin, Lynn B ^c   Hosseini, Parviez R ^d   Keesing, Felicia ^e  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TICK; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DISEASE CARRIER; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PIROPLASMOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION;

IXODIDA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BODY SIZE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84907207445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107387     Document Type: Article

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