Role of sand lizards in the ecology of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the Netherlands

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tijsse Klasen, Ellen ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^a   Reimerink, Johan Hj ^a   Spitzen Van Der Sluijs, Annemarieke ^b   Sprong, Hein ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Reptile Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ECOLOGY; EHRLICHIA; FEMALE; FOREST; HABITAT; INFECTION RISK; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SAND LIZARD; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA; BABESIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CALLUNA; EHRLICHIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77953869223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-42     Document Type: Article

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