Blackbirds and song thrushes constitute a key reservoir of Borrelia garinii, the causative agent of borreliosis in Central Europe

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1289-1293

  Taragel'ová, Veronika ^a   Koči, Juraj ^b   Hanincová, Klára ^c   Kurtenbach, Klaus ^d   Derdáková, Markéta ^a,e   Ogden, Nick H ^f   Literák, Ivan ^g   Kocianová, Elena ^b   Labuda, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^e PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIRDS; GROWTH KINETICS;

BIRD SPECIES; LARVAE; SPIROCHETE SPECIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BACTERIUM; LARVA; PASSERINE; TICK;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; EUROPE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SLOVAKIA; TICKS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETALES; TURDIDAE; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 39649111755     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01060-07     Document Type: Article

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