Spirochaetes in Aedes species, Culex pipiens pipiens larvae and hibernating Culex pipiens molestus mosquitoes detected with dark field microscopy (DFM) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods

Biologia

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 667-670

  Zakovska, Alona ^a,b   Dendis', Milos ^a   Pejchalovà, Katefhm ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borreliae; Mosquitoes; PCR; Spirochaetes

Indexed keywords

AEDES SP.; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS MOLESTUS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 17544380282     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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