European hedgehogs as hosts for Borrelia spp., Germany [8]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 952-953

  Skuballa, Jasmin ^a,c   Oehme, Rainer ^b   Hartelt, Kathrin ^b   Petney, Trevor ^a   Bücher, Thomas ^a   Kimmig, Peter ^b   Taraschewski, Horst ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b State Health Office Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLADDER; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GERMANY; HEART; HEDGEHOG; KIDNEY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE;

EID: 34250022125     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1306.070224     Document Type: Letter

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