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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |