Incompetence of deer as reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete.

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  1988-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4269/AJTMH.1988.39.105PMID 3400797
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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