| Literature DB >> 14570124 |
Joseph Piesman1, Bradley S Schneider.
Abstract
Ticks are not crawling needles, merely delivering infectious agents to vertebrate hosts. A sophisticated interplay takes place between ticks, pathogens, and vertebrate hosts. The relationship between Ixodes ticks and the Lyme disease spirochetes they transmit involves subtle changes in spirochete populations that maximize their chances of being transmitted. An understanding of this complex interplay will, hopefully, allow the development of new tools to block transmission of tick-borne agents.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 14570124 DOI: 10.1023/a:1025351727785
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Appl Acarol ISSN: 0168-8162 Impact factor: 2.132