An avian reservoir (Turdus merula) of the lyme borreliosis spirochetes

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 521-538

  Humair, Pierre François ^a   Postic, Danièle ^b   Wallich, Reinhard ^c   Gern, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN RESERVOIR; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; INFECTIVITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SWITZERLAND;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 0032078404     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8840(98)80194-1     Document Type: Article

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