Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and Ehrlichia chaffeensis in the National Park of Abruzzo

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Santino, Iolanda ^a   Iori, Albertina ^a   Sessa, Rosa ^a   Sulli, Cinzia ^b   Favia, Guido ^a   Del Piano, Massimo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi Ecologici Appenninici   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ehrlichia chaffeensis; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Ixodes ricinus; Polymerase chain reaction; Western blot

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ITALY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CATTLE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ITALY; IXODES; SHEEP;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; IXODES RICINUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0032124836     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00181-5     Document Type: Article

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