Occurrence of IgG antibodies to Anaplasma phagocytophilum in humans suspected of Lyme borreliosis in eastern Slovakia

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-288

  Kalinová, Zuzana ^a   Halánová, Monika ^a   Čisláková, Lýdia ^a   Sulinová, Zlatana ^a   Jarčuška, Pavol ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Human granulocytic anaplasmosis; IFA; Ixodes ricinus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SLOVAKIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SLOVAKIA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 75149131665     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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