Occurrence and identification of risk areas of Ixodes ricinus-borne pathogens: A cost-effectiveness analysis in north-eastern Italy

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Capelli, Gioia ^a   Ravagnan, Silvia ^a   Montarsi, Fabrizio ^a   Ciocchetta, Silvia ^a   Cazzin, Stefania ^a   Porcellato, Elena ^a   Babiker, Amira Mustafa ^a   Cassini, Rudi ^b   Salviato, Annalisa ^a   Cattoli, Giovanni ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^c  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

economic evaluation; Italy; Ixodes ricinus; surveillance; tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; LABORATORY TEST; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BACTERIA; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENTOMOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858849945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-61     Document Type: Article

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