Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Coxiella burnetii, Rickettsia spp., and Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. in ticks, and wild-living animals in Western and Middle Slovakia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 312-315

  Smetanová, Katarína ^a   Schwarzová, Katarína ^a   Kocianová, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Coxiella; Rickettsia; Tick borne pathogens; Ticks; Wild living animals

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR PARUMAPERTUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SLOVAKIA; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TICK; WILD ANIMAL;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 33845698495     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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