Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis)

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 249-261

  Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Emerging discase; Ixodes tick; Lyme borreliosis; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUROPE; HUMAN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEROTYPE; TICK; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0030959703     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00055-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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