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Conducting Tick-Borne Disease Research in Texas with a Focus on Rickettsia spp.

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 Rickettsia spp. Rickettsia amblyommatis and tick species Amblyomma americanum.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1703370
Date05 1900
CreatorsHuddleston, Jody Sue
ContributorsOppong, Joseph R., Benjamin, Robert C., Allen, Michael, Tiwari, Chetan, Kim, Tracy
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 69 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Huddleston, Jody Sue, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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