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Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (R...

Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (R...

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Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), for the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

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Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), for the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

Publisher

US: Entomological Society of America

Journal title

Journal of medical entomology, 2020-05, Vol.57 (3), p.927-932

Language

English

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US: Entomological Society of America

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Contents

The white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque), is a reservoir for the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in the eastern half of the United States, where the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), is the primary vector. In the Midwest, an additional Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia mayonii, was...

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Full title

Experimental Demonstration of Reservoir Competence of the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), for the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia mayonii (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8056285

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8056285

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ISSN

0022-2585

E-ISSN

1938-2928

DOI

10.1093/jme/tjz242

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