Limited Capacity of Deer To Serve as Zooprophylactic Hosts for Borrelia burgdorferi in the Northeastern United States-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Limited Capacity of Deer To Serve as Zooprophylactic Hosts for Borrelia burgdorferi in the Northeastern United States

Published:2022-03-22 Issue:6 Volume:88 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Goethert Heidi K.¹^ORCID,Telford Sam R.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Grafton, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract

Because deer are incompetent reservoirs for B. burgdorferi , their presence may modulate the force of enzootic transmission by serving as zooprophylactic or “dilution” hosts. Such an effect would depend on the extent to which subadult deer ticks feed on other hosts.

Funder

Rainwater Foundation

HHS | National Institutes of Health

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/aem.00042-22

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