Effects of Acorn Production and Mouse Abundance on Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Prevalence of Nymphal Ixodes scapularis Ticks

Risk of exposure to Lyme disease is a function of the local abundance of nymphal Ixodes ticks that are infected with the etiological agent, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi . We monitored abundance of white-footed mice (the principal B. burgdorferi reservoir in the eastern and central United Stat...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2001-03, Vol.1 (1), p.55-63
Hauptverfasser:	Ostfeld, Richard S., Schauber, Eric M., Canham, Charles D., Keesing, Felicia, Jones, Clive G., Wolff, Jerry O.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal Feed Animals Arachnid Vectors - growth & development Arachnid Vectors - microbiology Borrelia burgdorferi - physiology Disease Reservoirs Host-Parasite Interactions Ixodes - growth & development Ixodes - microbiology Lyme Disease - epidemiology Lyme Disease - transmission New York - epidemiology Nuts Nymph - microbiology Peromyscus - growth & development Population Density Population Dynamics Quercus Regression Analysis Research Papers Seasons Temperature
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