Reservoir competence of the vole, Clethrionomys rufocanus bedfordiae, for Borrelia garinii or Borrelia afzelii

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-69

  Ishiguro, Fubito ^a   Takada, Nobuhiro ^b   Nakata, Keisuke ^c   Yano, Yasuhiro ^b   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^d   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^d   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^d  

^a Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia garinii; Clethrionomys rufocanus bedfordiae; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOLE;

EID: 0030054271     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb03305.x     Document Type: Article

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