Empirical evidence for key hosts in persistence of a tick-borne disease.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  International Journal of Parasitology

• Publication date

  2003-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0020-7519(03)00128-0PMID 12906875
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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