Lyme disease, Virginia, USA, 2000-2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1661-1668

  Brinkerhoff, R Jory ^a,b   Gilliam, Will F ^a   Gaines, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; IXODES; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84907281190     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.130782     Document Type: Article

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