Pathogens of emerging tick-borne diseases, anaplasma phagocytophilum, rickettsia spp., and babesia spp., in ixodes ticks collected from rodents at four sites in Switzerland (Canton of Bern)

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 939-944

  Burri, Caroline ^a   Dupasquier, Christèle ^a   Bastic, Viktoria ^a   Gern, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia spp.; Ixodes; Rickettsia spp.; rodents

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA VENATORUM; FEEDING; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES TRIANGULICEPS; LARVA; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RICKETTSIA; RODENT; SWITZERLAND; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RODENTIA; SWITZERLAND; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES TRIANGULICEPS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 79960132681     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0215     Document Type: Article

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