Substantial Rise in the Prevalence of Lyme Borreliosis Spirochetes in a Region of Western Germany over a 10-Year Period

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1576-1582

  Kampen, Helge ^a   Rötzel, Diana C ^a   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^b   Maier, Walter A ^a   Seitz, Hanns M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY;

BIOTOPES; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LYME DISEASE; NATURE RESERVE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; HABITAT STRUCTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPIROCHETE; TICK; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BONN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 12144287539     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1576-1582.2004     Document Type: Article

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