Multitarget Test for Emerging Lyme Disease and Anaplasmosis in a Serosurvey of Dogs, Maine, USA

To determine if the range of deer ticks in Maine had expanded, we conducted a multitarget serosurvey of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in 2007. An extension of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi to the northern border and local transmission of Anaplasma phagocytophilum throughout southern area...

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Published in:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors: Rand, Peter W., Lacombe, Eleanor H., Elias, Susan P., Cahill, Bruce K., Lubelczyk, Charles B., Smith, Robert P.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Canis lupus
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321752
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21529407
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1705.100408
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Summary:To determine if the range of deer ticks in Maine had expanded, we conducted a multitarget serosurvey of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in 2007. An extension of exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi to the northern border and local transmission of Anaplasma phagocytophilum throughout southern areas was found.

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