Duration of Tick Attachment as a Predictor of the Risk of Lyme Disease in an Area in which Lyme Disease Is Endemic - Sood, Sunil K.; Salzman, Mark B.; Johnson, Barbara J. B.; Happ, Christine M.; Feig, Kevin; Carmody, Lillian; Rubin, Lorry G.; Hilton, Eileen; Piesman, Joseph (The Journal of infectious diseases, 1997)
Keywords: Animals; Bacterial diseases; Biological and medical sciences; Borrelia burgdorferi; Borrelia burgdorferi Group - isolation & purification; Borrelia infections; Concise Communications; DNA, Bacterial - analysis; Erythema; Hematophagic engorgement; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Insect Vectors - microbiology; Ixodes scapularis; Ixodidae; Lyme disease; Lyme Disease - etiology; Medical sciences; Nymphs; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Preventive medicine; Prospective Studies; Risk; Spirochaetales; Ticks; Ticks - microbiology; Time Factors; Tropical bacterial diseases; Parasitiformes; Human; Lyme disease; Sting; Borrelia infection; Duration; Infection; Arachnida; Ixodes; Fixation; Acari; Ixodida; Arthropoda; Risk factor; Bacteriosis; Skin; Invertebrata; Ixodidae; Spirachaetosis