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Pathogens, endosymbionts, and blood-meal sources of host-seeking ticks in the fast-changing Maasai Mara wildlife ecosystem

The role of questing ticks in the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), an ecosystem with intensified human-wildlife-livestock interactions, remains poorly understood. We surveyed the diversity of questing ticks, their blood-meal hosts, and tick-borne pa...

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Autores principales: Oundo, Joseph Wang’ang’a, Villinger, Jandouwe, Jeneby, Maamun, Ong’amo, George, Otiende, Moses Yongo, Makhulu, Edward Edmond, Musa, Ali Abdulahi, Ouso, Daniel Obado, Wambua, Lillian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32866142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228366