Isolation, cultivation and identification of Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies from Ixodes ricinus ticks from the city of Brno, Czech Republic

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-79

  Pejchalová, Kateřina ^a   Žákovská, Alena ^a   Mejzlíková, Marie ^a   Halouzka, Jiří ^b   Dendis, Miloš ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Genex CZ   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Cultivation; DFM method; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme borreliosis; PCR method

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISSECTION; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; TICK; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 34447123814     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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