Seroepidemiology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in wild mice captured in Northern Turkey

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-336

  Guner E S ^a   Watanabe, M ^b   Kadosaka, T ^c   Polat, E ^d   Gargili, A ^e   Gulanber, A ^e   Ohashi, N ^b   Kaneda, K ^b,f   Imai, Y ^b   Masuzawa, T ^b  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLADDER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SKIN CULTURE; SUBSPECIES; SUMMER; TISSUE CULTURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MUSCIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 20144387931     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268804003309     Document Type: Article

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