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Volume 6, Number 4—August 2000

Dispatch

Borrelia burgdorferi and the Causative Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in Deer Ticks, Delaware

Kathleen L. CurranComments to Author , Jonathan B. Kidd, Jaime Vassallo, and Victoria L. Van Meter

Author affiliations: Wesley College, Dover, Delaware, USA

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Ticks obtained from hunter-harvested deer in Delaware, November 1998

County No. of deer 
inspected % of deer 
infested with ticks Dermacentor 
albipictus Ixodes 
scapularis Total
New Castle 102 85 9 564 573
Kent 59 83 0 301 301
Sussex 91 84 15 591 616
Statewide 252 84 24 1,456 1,480

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