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Feeding of Ticks on Animals for Transmission and Xenodiagnosis in Lyme Disease Research
 

Feeding of Ticks on Animals for Transmission and Xenodiagnosis in Lyme Disease Research

Article DOI: 10.3791/50617
August 31st, 2013

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Summary August 31st, 2013

Lyme disease is the most commonly-reported vector-borne disease in North America. The causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi is a spirochete bacterium transmitted by Ixodid ticks. Transmission and detection of infection in animal models is optimized by the use of tick feeding, which we describe here.

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