Lyme disease spirochetes in ticks from northeastern China

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 499-504

  Takada, Nobuhiro ^e   Ishiguro, Fubito ^a,e   Fujita, Hiromi ^b,e   Wang, Hai Peng ^c,e   Wang, Ji Chun ^c,e   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^d,e  

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

^b Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CHINA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CHINA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENOTYPE; MURIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

ACARI; APODEMUS PENINSULAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS MEGASPINOSA; IXODES; IXODES NIPPONENSIS; IXODES PAVLOVSKYI; IXODES PERSULCATUS; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0031843248     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284712     Document Type: Article

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