Canine borreliosis - Epidemiology and diagnostics

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 137-140

  Skotarczak, Bogumiła ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Canine borreliosis; Diagnostics; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHROPATHY; BIOTOPE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; INFESTATION; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MALAISE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES RICINUS; SPIROCHAETES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036912384     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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