Genospecies diversity of Lyme disease spirochetes in rodent reservoirs

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 291-296

  Richter, Dania ^a,d   Endepols, Stefan ^b   Ohlenbusch, Andreas ^c   Eiffert, Helmut ^c   Spielman, Andrew ^d   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; HOST; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPIROCHETE;

EID: 0032958655     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0502.990218     Document Type: Article

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