An ecological approach to preventing human infection: Vaccinating wild mouse reservoirs intervenes in the Lyme disease cycle

Many pathogens, such as the agents of West Nile encephalitis and plague, are maintained in nature by animal reservoirs and transmitted to humans by arthropod vectors. Efforts to reduce disease incidence usually rely on vector control or immunization of humans. Lyme disease, for which no human vaccin...

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Autores principales: Tsao, Jean I., Wootton, J. Timothy, Bunikis, Jonas, Luna, María Gabriela, Fish, Durland, Barbour, Alan G.
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
Materias:
Ciencias Naturales
Borrelia
Ixodes
Peromyscus
Tick
Vector
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84356
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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