Identification of four genomic groups of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in a Lyme borreliosis endemic region of northern Croatia

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-30

  Rijpkema, S ^a   Golubic D ^b   Molkenboer, M ^a   Verbeek De Kruif, N ^a   Schellekens, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases ^*  (Croatia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Croatia; Ixodes ricinus; PCR; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLASSIFICATION; CROATIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CROATIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; IXODES; LYME DISEASE;

EID: 0029686358     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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