Seasonal variations in detecting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in rodents from north eastern Austria

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 754-758

  Khanakah, Gelas ^a   Kocianová, Elena ^b   Vyrosteková, Vanda ^b   Řeháček, Jozef ^b   Kundi, Michael ^a   Stanek, Gerold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Annual variation; B. burgdorferi sensu stricto; B. garinii; Borrelia afzelii; Rodent population

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; HOST SELECTION; INFECTION RATE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUSTRIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BRAIN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HEART; MICE; MURINAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33846481947     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0730-y     Document Type: Article

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