Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in passerine birds from the Mazurian Lake region (Northeastern Poland)

Avian Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-73

  Gryczyńska, Alicja ^a   Zgódka, Andrzej ^b   Płoski, Rafał ^c   Siemia̧tkowski, Marek ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHUS TRIVIALIS; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETULACEAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COCCOTHRAUSTES COCCOTHRAUSTES; ERITHACUS; ERITHACUS REBECULA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PRUNELLA MODULARIS; SITTA EUROPAEA; SITTA EUROPEA; SPIROCHAETA; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 1642532398     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079450310001636309     Document Type: Article

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