Lyme disease risk not amplified in a species-poor vertebrate community: Similar Borrelia burgdorferi tick infection prevalence and OspC genotype frequencies

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 566-575

  States, S L ^a   Brinkerhoff, R J ^a,b,c   Carpi, G ^a   Steeves, T K ^a   Folsom O'Keefe, C ^a,d   DeVeaux, M ^a   Diuk Wasser, M A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d Audubon Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Borrelia burgdorferi; Dilution effect; Lyme disease; Multiple niche polymorphism; OspC

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; OSPC GENE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES POOR VERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK; TICK; TRANSMISSION; VERTEBRATE;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; OSPC PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RISK; TICKS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84951907930     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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