Evaluation of different media and a BGM cell culture assay for isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from ticks and dogs

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-302

  Speck, Stephanie ^a   Failing, Klaus ^b   Reiner, Bärbel ^a   Wittenbrink, Max M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Co culture; Dog; Mammalian cells; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BUFFALO; CELL ASSAY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL VIABILITY; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOG; DOG DISEASE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; BUBALUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CICONIIFORMES; IXODES RICINUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037032408     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(02)00207-9     Document Type: Article

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