Study of Lyme borreliosis in Ukraine

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 298, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 154-160

  Biletska, Halyna ^a   Podavalenko, Larysa ^b   Semenyshyn, Oksana ^a   Lozynskyj, Ihor ^a   Tarasyuk, Oleksandra ^a  

^a L'viv Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene   (Ukraine)

^b KHARKIV MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Epidemiology; Lyme borreliosis; Morbidity; Natural foci; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; MURIDAE; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; UKRAINE; VOLE;

EID: 48349126742     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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