Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from the Lublin region (eastern Poland)

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-19

  Wójcik Fatla, Angelina ^a   Cisak, Ewa ^a   Zajac, Violetta ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dermacentor reticulatus; Ixodes ricinus; RT PCR; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POLAND; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VEGETATION; VIRUS CARRIER;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DERMACENTOR; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 79952487301     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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