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Role of migratory birds in introduction and range expansion of Ixodes scapularis ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2008
Ogden N H, Lindsay L R, Hanincová K, Barker I K, Bigras-Poulin M, Charron D F, Heagy A, Francis C M, O'Callaghan C J, Schwartz I, Thompson R A
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During the spring in 2005 and 2006, 39,095 northward-migrating land birds were captured at 12 bird observatories in eastern Canada to investigate the role of migratory birds in northward range expansion of Lyme borreliosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and their tick vector, Ixodes scapularis...
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