Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks collected from migratory birds in Switzerland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 976-979

  Poupon, Marie Angèle ^a   Lommano, Elena ^a   Humair, Pierre François ^a   Douet, Véronique ^a   Rais, Olivier ^a   Schaad, Michael ^b   Jenni, Lukas ^b   Gern, Lise ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Biology Institute of Zoology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; MIGRATORY BIRDS; TICK INFESTATION;

MICROORGANISMS;

BIRD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; RESERVOIR; TICK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIRD DISEASE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; INFESTATION; LYME DISEASE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RHIPICEPHALUS; SCANDINAVIA; SWITZERLAND; TICK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; PASSERIFORMES; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 33644850479     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.976-979.2006     Document Type: Article

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