Increased diversity of zoonotic pathogens and Borrelia burgdorferi strains in established versus incipient Ixodes scapularis populations across the Midwestern United States

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 531-542

  Hamer, Sarah A ^a   Hickling, Graham J ^b   Walker, Edward D ^c   Tsao, Jean I ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Midwest; Anaplasma; Babesia; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA ODOCOILEI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84951907518     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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