Bartonella infection in sylvatic small mammals of central Sweden

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 149-157

  Holmberg, M ^a   Mills, J N ^b   McGill, S ^a   Benjamin, G ^a   Ellis, B A ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARTONELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIOSIS; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWEDEN; VOLE; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037323901     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802008075     Document Type: Article

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