Low sero-prevalence of lyme borreliosis in the forested mountainous area of Gorski Kotar, Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 433-436

  Poljak, Ivica ^a   Trošelj Vukiæ, Biserka ^a   Miletiæ, Bojan ^a   Moroviæ, Miro ^a   Ružiæ Sabljiæ, Eva ^b   Vuèemiloviæ, Antonija ^c   Materljan, Eris ^d  

^a KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d Labin Health Center   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Croatia; Lyme disease; Prevalence; Serology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CROATIA; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FORESTRY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROATIA; DOGS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0034528584     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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