Fatal attraction or how do we get tick bites?

Infection

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 394-395

  Kahl, O ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE;

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IXODES RICINUS; LEISURE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RISK; SHORT SURVEY; TICK BITE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BITES AND STINGS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; TREES;

EID: 0029857815     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01716092     Document Type: Short Survey

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5. Kahl, O., Janetzki-Mittmann, C., Gray, J. S., Jonas, R., Stein, J., de Boer, R.: Risk of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi for a host in relation to the duration of nymphal Ixodes ricinus feeding and the method of tick removal. 6th Int. Conf. on Lyme Borreliosis, Bologna (Italy), June 19-22, 1994, Compendium of Abstracts (1994) PO26W.