First report of lyme disease spirochetes in ticks from Romania (Sibiu County)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-197

  Coipan, Elena Claudia ^a   Vladimirescu, Alexandru Filip ^a  

^a CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; PCR RLB; Romania; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; ROMANIA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; NYMPH; ROMANIA;

ROMANIA; SIBIU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 77956117761     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-010-9353-0     Document Type: Article

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