What is the percentage of pathogenic borreliae in spirochaetal findings of mosquito larvae?

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-276

  Nejedlá, Petra ^a   Norek, Adam ^a   Vostal, Karel ^a   Žákovská, Alena ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Mosquito larvae; PCR; Spirochaetal positivity

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CZECH REPUBLIC; INFECTION RATE; LARVA; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULEX; LARVA; TIME FACTORS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 75149118887     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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