Role of grey squirrels and pheasants in the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the Lyme disease spirochaete, in the U.K.

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-160

  Craine, Noel G ^a   Nuttall, Patricia A ^a   Marriott, Anthony C ^b   Randolph, Sarah E ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; Pheasant Phasianus colchicus; Reservoir hosts; Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAMSTER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CRICETINAE; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CAROLINENSIS; CRICETINAE; IXODES RICINUS; PHASIANIDAE; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 0030863751     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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