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Co-feeding Transmission and Its Contribution to the Perpetuation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia afzelii

To determine whether direct passage of spirochetes between co-feeding vector ticks contributes to the likelihood that the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia afzelii will perpetuate in nature, we compared the effects of time and space on transmission efficiency between simultaneously feeding ticks. The...

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Autores principales: Richter, Dania, Allgöwer, Rainer, Matuschka, Franz-Rainer
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12498658
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0812.010519