Spread of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Germany due to global warming

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Hartelt, Kathrin ^a   Pluta, Silvia ^a,b   Oehme, Rainer ^a   Kimmig, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; GERMANY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RICKETTSIA CONORII; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE VECTORS; GERMANY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; IXODES; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; COXIELLA BURNETII; DERMACENTOR; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RODENTIA;

EID: 56649086795     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1059-4     Document Type: Article

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