Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.

In a recent Letter to the Editor, Norris et al. questioned the validity of some of our data reported by Feria-Arroyo et al. The main issue investigated by us was the potential impact of climate change on the probable distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis in the Texas-Mexico transboundary...

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Autores principales: Esteve-Gassent, Maria D, Grover, Abha, Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P, Castro-Arellano, Ivan, Medina, Raul F, Gordillo-Pérez, Guadalupe, de León, Adalberto A Pérez
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0739-z
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author Esteve-Gassent, Maria D
Grover, Abha
Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
Medina, Raul F
Gordillo-Pérez, Guadalupe
de León, Adalberto A Pérez
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Grover, Abha
Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
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description In a recent Letter to the Editor, Norris et al. questioned the validity of some of our data reported by Feria-Arroyo et al. The main issue investigated by us was the potential impact of climate change on the probable distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region. As an ancillary issue, an analysis of sequence data for the intergenic spacer of Borrelia burgdorferi was conducted. In the present letter, we provide further evidence supporting our original results, and advocate that extensive study of the population genetics of B. burgdorferi is needed in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region.
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spelling pubmed-43536872015-03-10 Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al. Esteve-Gassent, Maria D Grover, Abha Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P Castro-Arellano, Ivan Medina, Raul F Gordillo-Pérez, Guadalupe de León, Adalberto A Pérez Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor In a recent Letter to the Editor, Norris et al. questioned the validity of some of our data reported by Feria-Arroyo et al. The main issue investigated by us was the potential impact of climate change on the probable distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region. As an ancillary issue, an analysis of sequence data for the intergenic spacer of Borrelia burgdorferi was conducted. In the present letter, we provide further evidence supporting our original results, and advocate that extensive study of the population genetics of B. burgdorferi is needed in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region. BioMed Central 2015-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4353687/ /pubmed/25885773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0739-z Text en © Esteve-Gassent et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Esteve-Gassent, Maria D
Grover, Abha
Feria-Arroyo, Teresa P
Castro-Arellano, Ivan
Medina, Raul F
Gordillo-Pérez, Guadalupe
de León, Adalberto A Pérez
Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title_full Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title_fullStr Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title_short Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to Norris et al.
title_sort prevalence of borrelia burgdorferi-infected ticks from wildlife hosts, a response to norris et al.
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0739-z
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