Synanthropic birds influence the distribution of borrelia species: Analysis of ixodes ricinus ticks feeding on passerine birds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1115-1117

  Dubska, Lenka ^a   Literak, Ivan ^a   Kocianova, Elena ^b   Taragelova, Veronika ^c   Sverakova, Veronika ^a   Sychra, Oldrich ^a   Hromadko, Miloslav ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^d NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; BORRELIA SPECIES; CZECH REPUBLIC;

BIRDS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; JUVENILE; PASSERINE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BORRELIA; CLASSIFICATION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRD; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IXODES; PASSERIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRDS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA; TURDUS PHILOMELOS;

EID: 79551486121     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02278-10     Document Type: Article

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