Incidence and prevalence of infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Prospective study in healthy individuals exposed to ticks

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 155-157

  Grzeszczuk, Anna ^a   Puzanowska, Beata ^a   Miȩgoć, Henryka ^a   Prokopowicz, Danuta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Antibodies; Borrelia burgdorferi; Humans; Infection; Poland

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE COURSE; EHRLICHIOSIS; EMPLOYEE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOREST; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; TICK BITE;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 3042820778     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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