Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus and rickettsiae in ticks of the district Burgenland, Austria;Häufigkeit des frühsommer-meningoenzephalitis-virus und von rickettsien in zecken aus dem Burgenland (Österreich)

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2008, Pages 45-48

  Dobler, Gerhard ^a   Essbauer, Sandra ^a   Terzioglu, Rahime ^a   Thomas, Astrid ^a   Wölfel, Roman ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Austria; Dermacentor spp.; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia helvetica; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DERMACENTOR; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SUMMER; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMACENTOR; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; IXODES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 57849154107     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-008-1074-6     Document Type: Article

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