Variations in Ixodes ricinus density and Borrelia infections associated with cattle introduced into a woodland in the Netherlands

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7138-7144

  Gassner, Fedor ^a   Verbaarschot, Patrick ^a   Smallegange, Renate C ^a   Spitzen, Jeroen ^a   Van Wieren, Sipke E ^a   Takken, Willem ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; OCEAN HABITATS; RISK PERCEPTION;

BORRELIA; CO INFECTIONS; INFECTION RATES; LYME DISEASES; METEOROLOGICAL DATUMS; NETHERLANDS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; TICK; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CATTLE; FOREST; GRAZING; INFESTATION; IXODES RICINUS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; IXODES; MICE; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DENSITY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; BOS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 57149115562     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00310-08     Document Type: Article

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