Absence of lyme disease spirochetes in larval ixodes ricinus ticks

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-27

  Richter, Dania ^a   Debski, Alina ^a   Hubalek, Zdenek ^b   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blood meal; Borrelia; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPIROCHETE; VEGETATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; IXODES; LARVA; MICE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84855422169     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0668     Document Type: Article

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