A ten-year study of tick biting in mississippi: Implications for human disease transmission

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 25-32

  Goddard, Jerome ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Tick biting; Tick feeding; Tick identification; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019519870     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J096v08n02_06     Document Type: Article

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