Minimal role of eastern fence lizards in borrelia burgdorferi transmission in Central New Jersey Oak/Pine Woodlands

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 578-582

  Rulison, Eric L ^a,b   Kerr, Kaetlyn T ^a,c,d   Dyer, Megan C ^a   Han, Seungeun ^a,e   Burke, Russell L ^a,c   Tsao, Jean I ^a,e   Ginsberg, Howard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Dept of Rsrc Mgmt and Planning   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LIZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WOODLAND;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREST; INFECTION RATE; INFESTATION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LABORATORY; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PINETORUM; MOUSE; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NYMPH; OAK; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PINE; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SIMULATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SOREX CINEREUS; TICK BITE; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TICK INFESTATION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

NORTH AMERICA;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; FORESTS; IXODES; LIZARDS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEW JERSEY; PEROMYSCUS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84908281255     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/14-503.1     Document Type: Article

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