Association between body size and reservoir competence of mammals bearing Borrelia burgdorferi at an endemic site in the northeastern United States

BACKGROUND: The reservoirs for the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, are dominated by several different small to medium sized mammals in eastern North America. FINDINGS: To experimentally assess the competence of different mammalian species to transmit this pathogen to ticks, we carried out...

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Autores principales: Barbour, Alan G., Bunikis, Jonas, Fish, Durland, Hanincová, Klara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26024881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0903-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26024881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0903-5

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