Conducting Tick-Borne Disease Research in Texas with a Focus on Rickettsia spp.
Description:
The field of vector-borne disease research uses multidisciplinary approaches to help understand complicated interactions. This dissertation, covers three different aspects of tick-borne disease research which all focus on exploring tick-borne diseases in the non-endemic areas of Denton, County Texas and the state of Texas with a focus on Rickettsia spp. These aspects include tick sampling, testing ticks for the presence of Rickettsia spp., and creating species distribution maps of the Rickettsi…
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Date:
May 2020
Creator:
Huddleston, Jody Sue
Partner:
UNT Libraries