Primary culture of Borrelia burgdorferi from Ixodes ricinus ticks

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-28

  Wittenbrink, Max M ^a,b   Reuter, Christiane ^a   Manz, Marie Luise ^a   Krauss, Hartmut ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst F Med Mikrobiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0030238316     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(96)80018-1     Document Type: Article

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