Fatal borreliosis in bat caused by relapsing fever spirochete, United Kingdom

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1331-1333

  Evans, Nicholas J ^a   Bown, Kevin ^a   Timofte, Dorina ^a   Simpson, Vic R ^b   Birtles, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Wildlife Veterinary Investigation Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGAS; AUTOPSY; BAT; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA JOHNSONII; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; SEPTICEMIA; SPIROCHETE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIVER; PHYLOGENY; RELAPSING FEVER; ZOONOSES;

EID: 68049088828     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1508.090475     Document Type: Letter

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