Natural Lyme disease cycles maintained via sheep by co-feeding ticks
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Co-feeding transmission in Lyme disease pathogens
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عنوان ژورنال: Parasitology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0031-1820,1469-8161
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182097001868