Lyme borreliosis: Insights into tick-/host-borrelia relations

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 279-294

  Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,c   Golovchenko, Maryna ^a   Vancová, Marie ^a   Zacharovová Slavíčková, Klára ^a   Rudenko, Nataliia ^a   Oliver Jr , James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia spirochete; Glycoproteins; Interactions; Lyme borreliosis; Ticks; Vectors

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES RICINUS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 29144529795     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.039     Document Type: Review

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