Borrelia burgdorferi promotes the establishment of Babesia microti in the Northeastern United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Dunn, Jessica M ^a   Krause, Peter J ^b,c   Davis, Stephen ^a   Vannier, Edouard G ^d   Fitzpatrick, Meagan C ^b   Rollend, Lindsay ^b   Belperron, Alexia A ^c   States, Sarah L ^b,e   Stacey, Andrew ^a   Bockenstedt, Linda K ^c   Fish, Durland ^b   Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^b,e  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PIROPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PEROMYSCUS; TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY;

BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; IXODES; NEW ENGLAND; PEROMYSCUS;

EID: 84964693947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone     Document Type: Article

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