Borrelia garinii in seabird ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic Coast, North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1909-1912

  Smith Jr , Robert P ^a   Muzaffar, Sabir Bin ^b   Lavers, Jennifer ^b   Lacombe, Eleanor H ^a   Cahill, Bruce K ^a   Lubelczyk, Charles B ^a   Kinsler, Allen ^a   Mathers, Amy J ^a   Rand, Peter W ^a  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES URIAE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEABIRD;

EID: 33845398923     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1212.060448     Document Type: Article

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