Antibiotic Treatment of the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum Reduced Reproductive Fitness

• Jianmin Zhong,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Medicine and Pacific-Southwest Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infections, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

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• Algimantas Jasinskas,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Medicine and Pacific-Southwest Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infections, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Alan G. Barbour

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: abarbour@uci.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Medicine and Pacific-Southwest Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infections, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

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