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Bacterial microbiomes of Ixodes scapularis ticks collected from Massachusetts and Texas, USA

BACKGROUND: The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the primary vector of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in North America. Though the tick is found across the eastern United States, Lyme disease is endemic to the northeast and upper midwest and rare or absent in the southern po...

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Autores principales: Thapa, Santosh, Zhang, Yan, Allen, Michael S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1514-7