Detection and identification of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi, and Rickettsia helvetica in Danish Ixodes ricinus ticks

APMIS

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-230

  Skarphedinsson S ^a,b   Lyholm, B F ^b   Ljungberg, M ^b   SOgaard P ^a,b   Kolmos, H J ^a,b   Nielsen, L P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia helvetica

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; GENOTYPE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DENMARK; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 33947306273     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2007.apm_256.x     Document Type: Article

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