Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalences in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in urban and suburban Bonn, western Germany

Parasitology Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-12

  Maetzel, Dorothea ^a   Maier, Walter A ^a   Kampen, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URBAN POPULATION;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 12444277238     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1240-3     Document Type: Article

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