Integration of a tick-borne encephalitis virus and borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato into mountain ecosystems, following a shift in the altitudinal limit of distribution of their vector, ixodes ricinus (krkonoš e mountains, Czech Republic)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-230

  Danielová, Vlasta ^a   Daniel, Milan ^a   Schwarzová, Lucie ^a   Materna, Jan ^b   Rudenko, Natalia ^c   Golovchenko, Marina ^c   Holubová, Jaroslava ^a   Grubhoffer, Libor ^c,d   Kilián, Patrik ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b Krkono e Museum   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies; Climate; Ixodes ricinus tick; Mountain ecosystems; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IXODES; MALE;

AVES; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 77951958653     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0020     Document Type: Article

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