The seroepidemiology of Lyme borreliosis in zoo animals in Germany

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 975-983

  Stoebel, K ^a   Schoenberg, A ^b   Streich, W J ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GERMANY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TICK; UNGULATE; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERMANY; IXODES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0142149025     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803008896     Document Type: Article

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