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Co-Infection of Blacklegged Ticks with Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi Is Higher than Expected and Acquired from Small Mammal Hosts

Humans in the northeastern and midwestern United States are at increasing risk of acquiring tickborne diseases – not only Lyme disease, but also two emerging diseases, human granulocytic anaplasmosis and human babesiosis. Co-infection with two or more of these pathogens can increase the severity of...

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Autores principales: Hersh, Michelle H., Ostfeld, Richard S., McHenry, Diana J., Tibbetts, Michael, Brunner, Jesse L., Killilea, Mary E., LoGiudice, Kathleen, Schmidt, Kenneth A., Keesing, Felicia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24940999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099348