Molecular detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus ticks from Istanbul metropolitan area and rural Trakya (Thrace) region of north-western Turkey

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-98

  Sen, Ece ^a   Uchishima, Yoshiyuki ^b   Okamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Fukui, Takashi ^b   Kadosaka, Teruki ^c   Ohashi, Norio ^d   Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes ricinus; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECREATION; RURAL AREA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TURKEY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79957795434     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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