Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 205-219

  Nuttall, P A ^a   Labuda, M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

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