Tick species and tick-borne infections identified in population from a rural area of Spain

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 943-949

  Merino, Francisco Jesús ^a   Nebreda, Teresa ^a   Serrano, Jose Luis ^b   Fernández Soto, Pedro ^c   Encinas, Antonio ^c   Pérez Sánchez, Ricardo ^d  

^a Hospital Virgen del Mirón   (Spain)

^b Servicio Territorial de Sanidad y Bienestar Social   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RURAL AREA; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRING; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SPAIN; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 27144507350     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004061     Document Type: Article

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