Tick bites in the Lyme light
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Tick bites in the Lyme light.
1Department of Paediatrics, Western University, London; 2Centre for Food Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 3National Microbiology Laboratory, National Public Health Laboratories, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 4Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University and IWK Health ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/20.5.237