Vectors as Epidemiological Sentinels: Patterns of Within-Tick Borrelia burgdorferi Diversity.

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005759

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Vectors as Epidemiological Sentinels: Patterns of Within-Tick Borrelia burgdorferi Diversity.

PLoS pathogens - 1 Jul 2016

Walter Katharine S, Carpi Giovanna, Evans Benjamin R, Caccone Adalgisa, Diuk-Wasser Maria A

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Hosts including humans, other vertebrates, and arthropods, are frequently infected with heterogeneous populations of pathogens. Within-host pathogen diversity has major implications for human health, epidemiology, and pathogen evolution. However, pathogen diversity within-hosts is difficult to characterize and little is known about the levels and sources of within-host diversity maintained in natural populations...

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Animals
Borrelia burgdorferi
Genetic Variation
Insect Vectors
Ixodes
Lyme Disease

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005759
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