Abundance of wild rodents, ticks and environmental risk of Lyme borreliosis: A longitudinal study in an area of Mazury Lakes district of Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-300

  Siński, Edward ^a   Pawełczyk, Agnieszka ^b   Bajer, Anna ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme borreliosis; Poland; Rodent populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IXODES RICINUS; LAKE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RAT; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SPECIES HABITAT; SPIROCHETE; TICK; WATER ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYME DISEASE; POLAND; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33846155926     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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