Annual and seasonal variation of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) prevalence in ticks in selected hot spot areas in Germany using a nRT-PCR: Results from 1997 and 1998

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 289, Issue 5-7, 1999, Pages 564-578

  Süss, Jochen ^a,d   Schrader, Christina ^a   Abel, Ulrich ^b   Voigt, Wolf P ^a   Schosser, Rudolf ^c  

^a Bundesinstitut F G   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Baxter Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^d Fed Inst Hlth Protect C   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERMANY; IXODES RICINUS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIMER DNA; RESTRICTION ENZYME ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0033386623     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(99)80010-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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