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No Observed Effect of Landscape Fragmentation on Pathogen Infection Prevalence in Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in the Northeastern United States

Pathogen prevalence within blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis Say, 1821) tends to vary across sites and geographic regions, but the underlying causes of this variation are not well understood. Efforts to understand the ecology of Lyme disease have led to the proposition that sites with higher host...

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Autores principales: Zolnik, Christine P., Falco, Richard C., Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Daniels, Thomas J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26430734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139473