Borrelia lusitaniae and green lizards (Lacerta viridis), Karst Region, Slovakia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1895-1901

  Majláthová, Viktória ^a   Majláth, Igor ^b   Derdáková, Marketa ^c   Víchová, Bronislava ^a   Pet'ko, Branislav ^a  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST; INFESTATION; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SLOVAKIA; TICK;

EID: 33845465712     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1212.060784     Document Type: Article

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