Discovery Of An Enzootic Cycle Of Borrelia Burgdorferi In Neotoma Mexicana And Ixodes Spinipalpis From Northern Colorado, An Area Where Lyme Disease Is Nonendemic

Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

1970 • 253,849 citations

Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Borrelia garinii sp. nov., and Group VS461 Associated with Lyme Borreliosis

1992 • 882 citations

Duration of tick attachment and Borrelia burgdorferi transmission

1987 • 506 citations

Lyme Borreliosis: Relation of Its Causative Agent to Its Vectors and Hosts in North America and Europe

1991 • 458 citations

Lyme disease spirochetes and ixodid tick spirochetes share a common surface antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

1983 • 443 citations

Monoclonal Antibodies for Identification of Borrelia afzelii sp. nov. Associated with Late Cutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis

1993 • 426 citations

Reservoir Competence of White-Footed Mice for Lyme Disease Spirochetes

1987 • 388 citations

A Borrelia-specific monoclonal antibody binds to a flagellar epitope

1986 • 369 citations

COMPARING THE RELATIVE POTENTIAL OF RODENTS AS RESERVOIRS OF THE LYME DISEASE SPIROCHETE (BORRELIABURGDORFERI)

1989 • 329 citations

Mice as Reservoirs of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

1985 • 298 citations

Plasmid analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent

1988 • 293 citations

The Western Black-Legged Tick, Ixodes Pacificus: A Vector of Borrelia Burgdorferi

1985 • 262 citations

Lyme Disease in California: a Novel Enzootic Transmission Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi

1992 • 236 citations

The ticks of California (Acari: Ixodida).

1984 • 234 citations

The Genus Ixodes in the United States: A Scanning Electron Microscope Study and Key to the Adults1

1978 • 228 citations

Ear punch biopsy method for detection and isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from rodents

1989 • 227 citations

Landscape Ecology of Lyme Disease in a Residential Area of Westchester County, New York

1991 • 221 citations

Standardization of medium for culturing Lyme disease spirochetes

1993 • 195 citations

Ability of Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis, and Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) to Acquire, Maintain, and Transmit Lyme Disease Spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi)

1988 • 177 citations

The Genus Ixodes in North America.

1945 • 172 citations

Characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi strains isolated from Ixodes pacificus ticks in California

1987 • 140 citations

Survival of Immature Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) at Different Relative Humidities

1994 • 139 citations

Reactivity of human Lyme borreliosis sera with a 39-kilodalton antigen specific to Borrelia burgdorferi

1990 • 132 citations

Transovarially Acquired Lyme Disease Spirochetes (Borrelia Burgdorferi) in Field-Collected Larval Ixodes Dammini (Acari: Ixodidae)1

1986 • 127 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ticks by Species-Specific Amplification of the Flagellin Gene

1992 • 124 citations

Distribution and molecular analysis of Lyme disease spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi, isolated from ticks throughout California

1993 • 105 citations

Transovarlal Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes dammini (Acari:Ixodidae)

1987 • 96 citations

Intrinsic Competence of Three Ixodid Ticks (Acari) as Vectors of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

1990 • 95 citations

Polymorphisms of major surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

1986 • 95 citations

Isolation and transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete from the southeastern United States.

1993 • 90 citations

Antibody to a 39-kilodalton Borrelia burgdorferi antigen (P39) as a marker for infection in experimentally and naturally inoculated animals

1991 • 77 citations

Lyme Disease Ecology in Wisconsin: Distribution and Host Preferences of Ixodes dammini, and Prevalence of Antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi in Small Mammals

1987 • 75 citations

Vector Competence of Ixodes pacificus and Dermacentor occidentalis (Acari: Ixodidae) for Various Isolates of Lyme Disease Spirochetes

1994 • 69 citations

Competence of Peromyscus maniculatus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) as a Reservoir Host for Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetares: Spirochaetaceae) in the Wild

1993 • 64 citations

Antigenic characteristics of Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from ixodid ticks in California

1989 • 60 citations

Comparison of in vitro culture and polymerase chain reaction for detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in tissue from experimentally infected animals

1991 • 59 citations

New Borrelia burgdorferi antigenic variant isolated from Ixodes dammini from upstate New York

1988 • 55 citations

Efficiency of Transovarial Transmission of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in the Western Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae)

1993 • 51 citations

Competence of a Rabbit-Feeding Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) as a Vector of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

1989 • 44 citations

Norway Rats as Reservoir Hosts for Lyme Disease Spirochetes on Monhegan Island, Maine

1993 • 43 citations

Role of the Eastern Chipmunk as a Host for Immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) in Northwestern Illinois

1993 • 31 citations

The Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in the United States 1987-1988

1990 • 29 citations

Analysis of Leptospira spp., Leptonema illini, and Rickettsia rickettsii for the 39-kilodalton antigen (P39) of Borrelia burgdorferi

1992 • 10 citations