Life history characteristics of birds influence patterns of tick parasitism

Introduction: Birds serve as reservoirs for tick-borne pathogens as well as hosts for multiple tick species of public health relevance. Birds may perpetuate life cycles of vectors and vector-borne pathogens and disperse disease vectors over long distances, supplementing populations at range margins...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Infection ecology & epidemiology 2019-01, Vol.9 (1), p.1547096-1547096
Hauptverfasser:	Brinkerhoff, R. Jory, Dang, Lena, Streby, Henry M., Gimpel, Maren
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Arachnids avian ecology and life history Birds Body size Ixodes scapularis Life cycles Life history Parasitism Pathogens Populations Public health Songbirds Species Ticks Vectors zoonotic disease
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