Prevalence of Lyme disease spirochetes in Ixodes persulcatus and wild rodents in Far Eastern Russia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3887-3889

  Sato, Yukita ^a   Miyamoto, Kenji ^a   Iwaki, Atsue ^b   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^b   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^b   Korenberg, Edward I ^c   Gorelova, N B ^c   Volkov, Vladimir I ^d   Ivanov, Leonid I ^e   Liberova, Rita N ^f  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d Khabarovsk Antiplague Station   (Russian Federation)

^e Khabarovsk Plague Control Station   (Russian Federation)

^f Khabarovsk Reg Ctr Sanitary E   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; INFECTION RATE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RODENT; USSR;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 10144232760     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3887-3889.1996     Document Type: Article

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