Co-feeding transmission in Lyme disease pathogens

Parasitology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 290-302

  Voordouw, Maarten J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; co feeding transmission; epidemiology; saliva assisted transmission; tick borne pathogens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; EUROPEAN; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; LYME DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TRANSMISSION;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DHORI VIRUS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

EID: 84922267117     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014001486     Document Type: Review

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