The negative relationship between mammal host diversity and Lyme disease incidence strengthens through time

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3244-3250

  Turney, Shaun ^a   Gonzalez, Andrew ^a   Millien, Virginie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplification; Borrelia burgdorferi; Dilution; Diversity; Emergence; Ixodes; Lyme disease; United States

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCE; LYME DISEASE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TICK;

UNITED STATES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84920018456     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0980.1     Document Type: Article

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