Differential role of passerine birds in distribution of Borrelia spirochetes, based on data from ticks collected from birds during the postbreeding migration period in central Europe

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 596-602

  Dubska, Lenka ^a   Literak, Ivan ^a   Kocianova, Elena ^b   Taragelova, Veronika ^c   Sychra, Oldrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD SPECIES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CZECH REPUBLICS; LYME DISEASE; PARUS MAJORS; URBAN AREAS;

BIRDS;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE VECTOR; HEMOPHAGY; MIGRATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PASSERINE; TICK;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 59649123650     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01674-08     Document Type: Article

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