Distribution of Ticks and the Risk of Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Pathogens of Public Health Significance in Ontario, Canada

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 215-222

  Clow, Katie M ^a   Ogden, Nicholas H ^b   Lindsay, L Robbin ^b   Michel, Pascal ^c   Pearl, David L ^a   Jardine, Claire M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Borne disease; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease; Tick

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CANADA; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LEPORISPALUSTRIS; INFECTION RISK; IXODES DENTATUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODIDAE; MICROBIOLOGY; ONTARIO; RISK; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; ONTARIO; RISK; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84961841994     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2015.1890     Document Type: Article

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