Ticks (Ixodidae) from passerine birds in the Carpathian region

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 23-24, 2006, Pages 759-764

  Špitalská, Eva ^a   Literák, Ivan ^b   Sparagano, Olivier A E ^c   Golovchenko, Marina ^d   Kocianová, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Carpathians; Ehrlichia; Ixodes ricinus; Passerine birds; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFESTATION; LARVAL STAGE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLOVAKIA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DOGS; EHRLICHIA; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; PASSERIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 33846552326     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0729-4     Document Type: Article

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