Study on lyme borreliosis focus in the Lublin Region (eastern Poland)

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-332

  Cisak, Ewa ^a   Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Wójcik Fatla, Angelina ^a   Zaja̧c, Violetta ^a   Skórska, Czeslawa ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Clinical cases; Eastern Poland; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme borreliosis; Natural focus; Rural inhabitants; Seroepidemiology; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYMPH; POLAND; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 57449087645     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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