Elimination of lyme disease spirochetes from ticks feeding on domestic ruminants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7650-7652

  Richter, Dania ^a   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; CATTLE GRAZING; LYME DISEASE;

AGRICULTURE;

MAMMALS;

CATTLE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; GOAT; HEALTH RISK; LYME DISEASE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IXODES; PREVALENCE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 78649696308     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01649-10     Document Type: Article

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