Tick bites on humans in the agricultural and recreational areas in South-Eastern Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 151-157

  Bartosik, Katarzyna ^a   Sitarz, Monika ^a,b   Szymańska, Jolanta ^a   Buczek, Alicja ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dermacentor reticulatus; Ixodes ricinus; Recreational areas; Tick bites; Ticks on human

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR RETICULATIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NYMPH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANISMS BY HABITAT; POLAND; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN PRURITUS; TICK BITE; TOURISM; URBAN AREA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALE; POLAND; RECREATION; TICKS;

ARTHROPODA; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79960365634     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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