Prevalence of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in ixodes ricinus ticks from recreational areas of Silesia

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1003-1008

  Strzelczyk, Joanna K ^a   Wiczkowski, Andrzej ^a   Kwaśniewski, Mirosław ^b   Zalewska Ziob, Marzena ^a   Strzelczyk, Janusz ^a   Gawron, Katarzyna ^a   Adamek, Brygida ^a   Spausta, Grazyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Flagellin gene; Genospecies; PCR RFLP analysis; Ticks

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TICK;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 33846666216     PISSN: 1230025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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