Failure of Ixodes ticks to inherit Borrelia afzelii infection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3089-3091

  Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a,b   Schinkel, Thomas W ^a   Klug, Birte ^a   Spielman, Andrew ^b   Richter, Dania ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; HERITABILITY; LYNE DISEASE; PATHOGEN;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION RISK; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; VECTOR CONTROL;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0031927323     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.3089-3091.1998     Document Type: Article

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