Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in southeastern Canada.

Bouchard, C

Harvested white-tailed deer as sentinel hosts for early establishing Ixodes scapularis populations and risk from vector-borne zoonoses in southeastern Canada. [electronic resource] - Journal of medical entomology Mar 2013 - 384-93 p. digital

Publication Type: Evaluation Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

0022-2585

10.1603/me12093 doi


Age Factors
Anaplasma phagocytophilum--isolation & purification
Animals
Babesia microti--isolation & purification
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins--analysis
Borrelia burgdorferi--isolation & purification
Climate
Deer
Ecosystem
Female
Humans
Ixodes--microbiology
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction--veterinary
Population Surveillance--methods
Quebec--epidemiology
RNA, Bacterial--analysis
RNA, Ribosomal, 23S--analysis
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sentinel Surveillance--veterinary
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sex Factors
Tick Infestations--epidemiology
Zoonoses--epidemiology