Highly variable year-to-year prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Northeastern Poland: A 4-year follow-up

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 309-311

  Grzeszczuk, Anna ^a   Stańczak, Joanna ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Host seeking ticks; Ixodes ricinus; Poland

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33845719973     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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