Lyme disease bacterium does not affect attraction to rodent odour in the tick vector
Abstract Background Vector-borne pathogens experience a conflict of interest when the arthropod vector chooses a vertebrate host that is incompetent for pathogen transmission. The qualitative manipulation hypothesis suggests that vector-borne pathogens can resolve this conflict in their favour by ma...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0856-8 |