Occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii in the Ixodes ricinus ticks from Eastern Slovakia

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-109

  Štěpánová Tresová, Gabriela ^a,c   Pet'ko, Branislav ^b   Štefančíková, Astéria ^b   Nadzamová, Diana ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto; Borrelia garinii; Isolations; Ixodes ricinus; Prevalence; Ticks

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; ELECTROPHORESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; IXODES RICINUS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0342264409     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007606623892     Document Type: Article

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