Anti-Borrelia antibodies in rodents: Important hosts in ecology of Lyme disease

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-213

  Stefancikova, Asteria ^a   Bhide, Mangesh ^b   Pet'ko, Branislav ^a   Stanko, Michal ^c   Mošansky, Ladislav ^c   Fričova, Jana ^c   Derdáková, Markéta ^a   Trávniček, Milan ^b  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ecology; ELISA; IgG antibodies; Rodents

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLIS; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BORRELIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOST; LYME DISEASE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RODENT; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA; SPRING; SUMMER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYME DISEASE; MURIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SLOVAKIA;

APODEMUS; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 11244260924     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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