Seroprevalence of anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies in sheep and goats from mountainous areas of Slovakia

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-155

  Trávniçek, Milan ^a   Šefančiková, Asteria ^b   Nadzamová, Diana ^b   Stanko, Michal ^c   Čisláková, Lỳdia ^d   Pet'ko, Branislav ^b   Mardzinová, Silvia ^a   Bhide, Mangesh Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^d P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; ELISA; Goat; Sheep; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GOAT; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; LYME DISEASE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SLOVAKIA;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036907937     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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