Anaplasma in ticks feeding on migrating birds and questing ticks in Lithuania and Norway

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 34-36

  Paulauskas, A ^a   Radzijevskaja, J ^a   Rosef, O ^b  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODES RICINUS; LITHUANIA; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRD;

ANAPLASMA; AVES; IXODIDA;

EID: 73049117321     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02164.x     Document Type: Article

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