Multistrain Infections with Lyme Borreliosis Pathogens in the Tick Vector

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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology

سال: 2017

ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336

DOI: 10.1128/aem.02552-16