Association between body size and reservoir competence of mammals bearing Borrelia burgdorferi at an endemic site in the northeastern United States

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Barbour, Alan G ^a   Bunikis, Jonas ^a,c   Fish, Durland ^b   Hanincová, Klara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Allometry; Borrelia miyamotoi; Ixodes; Lyme borreliosis; Lyme disease; Peromyscus; Spirochete; Tickborne

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACCOON; SCIURIDAE; SKUNK; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPIROCHETE; TAMIAS; TICK INFESTATION; UNITED STATES; VOLE; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIS; MICROTUS PINETORUM; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PROCYON LOTOR; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SPIROCHAETALES; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MAMMALS; NEW ENGLAND; NYMPH; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84934889470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0903-5     Document Type: Article

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