Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in Ixodes ricinus ticks from Styria (Austria) and species identification by PCR-RFLP analysis

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 288, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 471-478

  Stünzner, Doris ^a   Hubalek, Zdenek ^b   Halouzka, Jiri ^b   Postic, Daniele ^c   Pierer, Karen ^a   Marth, Egon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS;

EID: 2442770048     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(98)80063-7     Document Type: Article

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