Microclimate and the zoonotic cycle of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Switzerland

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 615-627

  Burri, C ^a   Bastic, V ^a   Maeder, G ^a   Patalas, E ^a   Gern, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cofeeding; Ixodes ticks; microclimate; small mammals; tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

NS5 PROTEIN, FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SEASON; SWITZERLAND; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TICK INFESTATION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HOST SPECIFICITY; IXODES; LARVA; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; TICK INFESTATIONS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; ZOONOSES;

FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 79955977890     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/ME10180     Document Type: Article

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