Retraction to Established and emerging pathogens in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from birds on a conservation island in the Baltic Sea [Medical and Veterinary Entomology 24 425-432] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00905.x;Established and emerging pathogens in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from birds on a conservation island in the Baltic Sea

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-432

  Franke, J ^a   Meier, F ^a   Moldenhauer, A ^a   Straube, E ^a   Dorn, W ^a   Hildebrandt, A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Babesia; Borrelia; Emerging pathogens; Ixodes; Rickettsia; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIVERGENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ISLAND; LARVA; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; PROTECTED AREA; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TICK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; AVES; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIACEAE; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TURDIDAE;

EID: 78149374264     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12002     Document Type: Erratum

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