Small risk of developing symptomatic tick-borne diseases following a tick bite in the Netherlands

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Tijsse Klasen, Ellen ^a   Jacobs, Jac J ^b   Swart, Arno ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^a   Reimerink, Johan H ^a   Brandenburg, Afke H ^c   Van Der Giessen, Joke W B ^a   Hofhuis, Agnetha ^a   Sprong, Hein ^a  

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

^b General Practice Ballum ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Laboratorium Voor de Volksgezondheid in Friesland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA DETERMINATION; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PANIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSECT BITE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BABESIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIA; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; IXODES; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETTSIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 79751531753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-17     Document Type: Article

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