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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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Figure 1

The proportion of Ixodes scapularis among ticks parasitizing white-tailed deer in Delaware, 1988 (2) and 1998.

Figure 1. The proportion of Ixodes scapularis among ticks parasitizing white-tailed deer in Delaware, 1988 (2) and 1998.

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