Vector-host interactions in disease transmission.
Tick-borne spirochetes include borreliae that cause Lyme disease and relapsing fever in humans. They survive in a triangle of parasitic interactions between the spirochete and its vertebrate host, the spirochete and its tick vector, and the host and the tick. Until recently, the significance of vect...
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Format: | Journal article |
Sprache: | English |
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2000
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