Acarological risk of exposure to agents of tick-borne zoonoses in the first recognized Italian focus of Lyme borreliosis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1139-1147

  Mannelli, A ^a   Boggiatto, G ^a   Grego, E ^a   Cinco, M ^b   Murgia, R ^b   Stefanelli, S ^c   De Meneghi, D ^a   Rosati, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c Istituto Zooprofilattico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXPOSURE; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TICK; ZOONOSIS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; ITALY; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 1042292602     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001328     Document Type: Article

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