Maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi among vertebrate hosts: a test of dilution effect mechanisms

Keyphrases

• Disease Risk 100%
• Effect Mechanism 100%
• Dilution Effect 100%
• Borrelia Burgdorferi 100%
• Vertebrate Hosts 100%
• Host Diversity 60%
• Host Abundance 60%
• Species Richness 40%
• Host Community 40%
• Nymph 40%
• Transmission Reduction 40%
• Vector Regulation 40%
• Vector Transmission 20%
• Computational Modeling 20%
• Competencies 20%
• Varying Density 20%
• Infection Rate 20%
• Community Influence 20%
• Effective Control 20%
• Natural Settings 20%
• Pathogen Infection 20%
• White-footed Mouse 20%
• Ixodes Scapularis 20%
• Lyme Disease Risk 20%
• Peromyscus Leucopus 20%
• Effective Reduction 20%
• Wildlife Hosts 20%
• Pathogen Transmission 20%
• Individual-based Model 20%
• Eastern Grey Squirrel 20%
• Host Reservoirs 20%
• Transmission Cycles 20%
• Eastern chipmunk 20%
• Tamias Striatus 20%
• Shrew 20%
• Didelphis Virginiana 20%
• Virginia Opossum 20%
• Blarina Brevicauda 20%
• Sciurus Carolinensis 20%
• Encounter Reduction 20%
• Host Composition 20%

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Peromyscus leucopus 100%
• Borrelia burgdorferi 100%
• Nymph 100%
• Eastern Gray Squirrel 100%
• Lyme Disease 50%
• Prevalence 50%
• Ixodes scapularis 50%
• Opossum 50%
• Tamias 50%
• Tamias striatus 50%
• Shrew 50%
• Blarina brevicauda 50%
• Didelphis virginiana 50%

Immunology and Microbiology

• Infectious Agent 100%
• Dilution 100%
• Borrelia burgdorferi 100%
• Species Richness 66%
• Nymph 66%
• Peromyscus leucopus 66%
• Tamias 66%
• Prevalence 33%
• Sciuridae 33%
• Opossum 33%
• Ixodes scapularis 33%
• Shrew 33%
• Didelphis virginiana 33%
• Sciurus 33%