Detecting DNAs of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia in the blood of patients suspected of Lyme disease

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 351-354

  Hermanowska Szpakowicz, Teresa ^a   Skotarczak, Bogumiła ^b   Kondrusik, Maciej ^a   Rymaszewska, Anna ^b   Sawczuk, Marek ^b   Maciejewska, Agnieszka ^b   Adamska, Małgorzata ^b   Pancewicz, Sławomir ^a   Zajkowska, Joanna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia; Patients suspected of Lyme disease; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SCREENING; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POLAND; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BABESIA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 11244311831     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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