The occurrence of spotted fever rickettsioses and other tick-borne infections in forest workers in Poland

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 985-989

  Podsiadły, Edyta ^a   Chmielewski, Tomasz ^a   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^b   Kȩdra, Elzbieta ^b   Tylewska Wierzbanowska, Stanisława ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

bacterial tick borne coinfections; spotted fever group rickettsiae; tick borne infections

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FOREST WORKER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FORESTRY; HUMANS; POLAND; RICKETTSIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 79960117307     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0080     Document Type: Article

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