Limited Capacity of Deer To Serve as Zooprophylactic Hosts for Borrelia burgdorferi in the Northeastern United States
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DOI: 10.1128/aem.00042-22
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… read more here.
Keywords: northeastern united; united states; deer ticks; deer ... See more keywords